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In spite of being labelled as an 'anti-national' from various right-wing quarters, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union leader Kanhaiya Kumar has found support from people most unexpected.
Not only did Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said it is wrong to brand Kanhaiya as anti-national and slap a sedition case against him, soon after, the Hindu Sant Mahasabha – an affiliate organization of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha – said they were wrong in labeling Kumar as anti-national, according to this report by The Times of India.
Swami Chakrapani Maharaj, the president of the organisation, was quoted in the report as saying, that they were misled by the "BJP propaganda" against Kumar and his fellow JNU scholars Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya.
"I was enraged when I learnt that Kanhaiya, Umar and Anirban had raised slogans against my mother land. I was swayed by the BJP's propaganda. However, I decided to follow this case properly. When I went into the details, I realized that there was not a shred of evidence against any of the three students. It was clear to me that the BJP has been trying to make scapegoat of them," Maharaj told The Times of India.
According to this report by The Hindu, Chakrapani Maharaj said that the BJP government was trying to make Kumar a scapegoat and is trying to exploit the issue of nationalism. "It is quite shameless and completely wrong to brand innocent students as anti-national when their views are completely within the purview of the Constitution," Maharaj was quoted as saying in the report.
Kanhaiya not an anti-national: Hindu Sant Mahasabha admits to being 'swayed' by BJP propaganda - Firstpost
Not only did Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said it is wrong to brand Kanhaiya as anti-national and slap a sedition case against him, soon after, the Hindu Sant Mahasabha – an affiliate organization of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha – said they were wrong in labeling Kumar as anti-national, according to this report by The Times of India.
Swami Chakrapani Maharaj, the president of the organisation, was quoted in the report as saying, that they were misled by the "BJP propaganda" against Kumar and his fellow JNU scholars Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya.
"I was enraged when I learnt that Kanhaiya, Umar and Anirban had raised slogans against my mother land. I was swayed by the BJP's propaganda. However, I decided to follow this case properly. When I went into the details, I realized that there was not a shred of evidence against any of the three students. It was clear to me that the BJP has been trying to make scapegoat of them," Maharaj told The Times of India.
According to this report by The Hindu, Chakrapani Maharaj said that the BJP government was trying to make Kumar a scapegoat and is trying to exploit the issue of nationalism. "It is quite shameless and completely wrong to brand innocent students as anti-national when their views are completely within the purview of the Constitution," Maharaj was quoted as saying in the report.
Kanhaiya not an anti-national: Hindu Sant Mahasabha admits to being 'swayed' by BJP propaganda - Firstpost
