Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni extend support to students

KOZHIKODE: The arrest of JNU student union leader Kanhaiya Kumar and the consequential campaign and counter campaign at the national-level have had its reverberations in the state too.

While Sangh Parivar outfits started their campaign justifying the action against student leaders, JNU alumni launched a counter campaign on Friday extending solidarity with the JNU students’ community.

Noted academician K. N. Ganesh inaugurated the open forum organized by alumni at Mananchira Square at Kozhikode. JNU alumnus Anil Verma, one of the organizers, said that the programme was organized as part of expressing solidarity with JNU students.

“The present campaign by malicious elements is aimed at destroying the academic and liberal ambience of JNU”, he added. Meanwhile, Bharatiya Vichara Kendram, a pro-Sangh outfit conducted a seminar here on ‘What is happening in JNU’.

Addressing the programme, Supreme Court advocate and standing counsel of central government Monika Arora said that JNU had been a centre of anti-national activism for more than a decade, mocking at Indian nationalism.

“Over the last many years, the Marxists in the campus are injecting anti–national venom and encouraging the Kashmiri separatist movement”, she said. The nationalist government at the centre wants to reboot the system in JNU and ensure a proper system”, she added.