JNU pamphlet acts as the red rag from Sindhu to Smriti

A Malayalam anchor moderated a spirited discussion on a popular TV news show whether celebrating Mahishasur Jayanti could be considered an act of treason on February 25. Since then, Sindhu Sooryakumar, chief coordinating editor of Asianet News TV, says she has received over 2,000 abusive calls on her mobile. They are accusing her of calling Durga a "*** worker" during the show. A video of the show shows that those two words were read out by V V Rajesh, BJP state secretary, while quoting from pamphlets that he claimed were distributed on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus and later produced in Parliament by HRD Minister Smriti Irani. On 29 February , the Kerala Police arrested five people based on a complaint filed by the journalist. G Sparjan Kumar, Commissioner of Police, Thiruvananthapuram city, told The Indian Express: "All of those arrested are connected to BJP, RSS and Hindu groups, including Sri Rama Sena." One of the five from Thiruvananthapuram told the police that he got Sindhu's number from a WhatsApp group called Sanga Dhwani, where a member shared her personal number and asked others to call and abuse her "for a Facebook post on Durga". Three others, who were arrested from Kannur, are members of Sri Rama Sena, the pro-Hindutva group involved in the Mangalore pub attack of 2009 and several other cases of moral policing. "I have been getting a call every minute. The main allegation is that I abused Durga, calling her a *** worker," says sindhu. "Most of the abusers called me a prostitute and abused me. Some threatened me while others didn't even know what the charge was. I got a call this morning from someone asking whether I was Durga. Another person called me some time ago, saying I had posted something against Durga on Facebook, and that he wanted to abuse me for that," she said. The JNU students pamphlet has vitiated the Indian atmosphere, and the wrong people are getting the abuse for it, thanks to the opposition parties.