New Delhi, Sept 19; GANASHAKTI: The JNUSU is deeply dismayed by the statements made by Union Minister and former JNU alumnus, Nirmala Sitharaman.
As a former student of this university and as a senior minister, such statements calling JNUSU members anti-India and 'waging a war against India' is utterly baseless and condemnable.
We see this as a continuation of the systematic slander against the JNU students and faculty that has resulted in numerous attacks on students and teachers, such as the one on Sanjay Kumar in Motihari, Bihar or elsewhere.
Time and again the imagined category of “anti-national” has been invoked by the ruling dispensation to malign and clamp down upon voices of resistance, may it be Bhima Koregaon or the Pathalgadi movement. It is interesting to note that anti-national is the chief branding pitch offered by the state against JNU and its students yet even after more than 900 days they have been unable to substantiate these charges by filing a chargesheet against Kanhaiya or Umar.
The political and ideological defeat of the RSS in JNU in the recent JNUSU elections is being countered through such malicious propaganda and slander. The JNU community is reeling under threats of violence over the last couple of days and the statements of the Minister is completely inimical to the restoration of normalcy. She is playing with fire and instigating more hatred against the students of this university from a position of immense power and responsibilities.
We demand that she retracts such an irresponsible and baseless statement immediately and issues an apology to the JNUSU and JNU student community for partaking in such vile slander and hate mongeri.
