JNU: What is the issue all about?

Before making your view about any issue it is important that you should know the complete issue. With the JNU issue taking a few wanders aimlessly, we investigates how the issue began and where.

The level headed discussion around Afzal Guru

Prior, students from the JNU organized an event (which they had termed as a cultural meeting) on Afzal Guru who was convicted in the case of Parliament assault and thus was hanged in 2013. This was to be done to pay solidarity with Kashmiries also. This event was planned on the day after Guru's third death anniversary.

The occasion coordinators had stuck publications over the grounds welcoming students to gather for a march in which they had shown their disconcern for the judicial Killing of Afzal Guru and the other convict Maqbool Bhatt. This pre-planned project of them showcased the dissent through verses, arts and music.

This set off the stage for the issue, with the Members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) arranging a dissent to request removal of the coordinators and other associated people.

Under the pressure, administration requested a "disciplinary" enquiry and said the event organisers "proceeded without consent of the authorities."



'Anti-India' Sloganeering

ABVP individuals affirmed that the march which was planned as a part of the event comprised of students yelling 'anti India' slogans. This was later proved by a video which had clearly demonstrated students shouting anti-India and pro-Pakistan slogans.


Views of the JNU students:

The students who are associated with the committee which had organised the event said that none of them were a involved with the group which the group that was shouting slogans.

They claimed that the programme was just a cultural gathering planned and organised to scrutinize the working of the Supreme Court and was likewise intended to bring the grievances of the Kashmiri residents to light.



Arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar:

Kanhaiya Kumar who is the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president  was detained and then arrested on sedition charges after claims of 'anti-India' and 'pro-Pakistan' sloganeering against him raised.

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