Suravaram clarifies Kanhaiya Kumar doesn't belong to CPI

Even as JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar said on the occasion of International women's Day on Tuesday that he would make a case for alleged rape of Kashmiri women by Armymen, the CPI clarified that it did not have affiliates and outfits like the All India Students Federation (AISF), to which Kanhaiya belonged, were independent but friendly to the party. The CPI general secretary, Survaram Sudhakar Reddy, made it clear that Kanhaiya Kumar did not belong to the CPI. He said that his party did not have student or youth wings. `All those in the Students Federation are not our party members. But Kanhaiya Kumar definitely belongs to our party family... There is a difference between affiliate and those who are friendly with us,' Sudhakar Reddy said. He noted in this connection that the AISF was inaugrated in 1936 by Jawaharlal Nehru at a meeting presided over by Subhas Chandra Bose. The clarification had come at a time when Kanhaiya Kumar was making one outrageous statement after another each month. On February 9, he was involved in anti-India sloganeering, and the latest was his taking up the issue of atrocities on women in Kashmir by Armymen. It is to be noted that sensitive Kashmir separatists are also not making such atrocious statements as JNU president Kanhaiya Kumar. He had already given in writing to the court that he would not make anti-India statements again for his bail.