[New Delhi]JNU Teachers Voice Solidarity With Their Agitating Students And, Join Strike For Nationalism Classes
JNU teachers today joined the students in boycotting classes in protest against arrest of its student union leader in a sedition case and said they would take classes on “nationalism” in the varsity lawns.
The students had yesterday gone on an indefinite strike till JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar is released and the sedition case against him dropped.
After 10 teachers and a group of students were attacked yesterday in Patiala House court complex where Kanhaiya was produced yesterday, the teachers association decided to join the students in boycotting classes.
. It is time we teach our students what nationalism is,” said Rohith Azad, a faculty member, who was among those who were attacked yesterday.
The one-and-half-hour long lecture on “nationalism ” will be held every evening at 5 in front of the administration block.
JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested last week in connection with a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy registered over holding of the event at the varsity during which anti-India slogans were alleged to have been raised.
His arrest has triggered widespread outrage among students and teachers and drawn severe criticism from non-BJP political parties.
The university teachers had earlier rallied behind its protesting students and questioned the administration’s decision to allow the police crackdown on the campus even as they appealed to the public not to “brand” the institution as “anti-national” but they had not joined the strike earlier.
Teachers’ bodies of 40 central universities and Pune-based FTII had also come out in support of the agitating students, saying it is an issue of “indiscipline” and not “sedition”.
Over 400 academicians from international varsities, including Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, SOAS, University of Toronto, McGill, King’s College, University of California, Berkeley and New York University have also expressed solidarity with JNU students
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JNU Teachers Rallying Behind Students,Join Strike For Nationalism Classes
Geelani Of Delhi University Arrested For Sedition: JNU Hoopla
[New Delhi]Geelani Of Delhi University Arrested For Sedition. He is Former Lecturer Of DU
In 2001 He Was Acquitted for Need of Evidence
SAR Geelani was arrested today on sedition charge in connection with JNU Issue ,
As per DCP (New Delhi) Jatin .”Geelani was arrested around 3 AM at the Parliament Street police station under IPC sections 124A (sedition), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 149 (unlawful assembly),”
Geelani was called to the police station last night where he was detained and questioned for several hours, and later arrested. After his arrest, he was taken to RML Hospital for a medical examination
His arrest comes amid the raging row over the arrest of JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar over sedition charges in connection with an event on February 9 against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
At a Press Club event on February 10, in which Geelani was present on the dais along with three other speakers, a group allegedly had shouted slogans hailing Afzal Guru. Taking suo motu cognisance of the matter, the police registered a case against Geelani and other unnamed persons on February 12.
Police claims Geelani Main Organiser of the event.
“Request for booking a hall at the Press Club was done through Geelani’s e-mail and the nature of the event was proposed to be a public meeting,
Following the registration of the FIR, the police questioned for two consecutive days DU professor Ali Javed, a Press Club member, under whose membership number the hall for the event was booked.
In 2001, Geelani was arrested by Delhi Police in connection with the Parliament attack case but acquitted for “need of evidence” by the Delhi High Court in October 2003, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court in August 2005, which at the same time had observed that the needle of suspicion pointed towards him.
Congress & BJP TOP Brass Trade Bitter Charges On JNU Hoopla
[New Delhi] Congress & BJP Top Brass Trade Bitter Charges On JNU Hoopla .Leftist Have Also Opened Front Against Central Govt
BJP chief Amit Shah today alleged that Rahul Gandhi was supporting “anti-nationals” and wanted another “division” of India while the Congress vice president said the BJP was following an agenda of creating “divide and hatred”.
Speaking on the raging JNU controversy for the first time, Shah asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul a host of questions and demanded that he apologise for his stand on the JNU issue, saying support to anti-national forces in the name of the Left’s progressive ideology is not acceptable.
“An attempt was made to defame a leading university in the national capital by turning it into a centre which encourages terrorism and separatism.
He asked “I want to ask Rahul Gandhi if it would be in national interest had the central government kept quiet?
Shah wrote in a blog.”Are you not encouraging traitors by protesting in support of these anti-nationals?”,
Noting that slogans like ‘Pakistan zindabad’, ‘go India go back’ and those in support of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, Kashmir’s independence and India’s destruction were raised in JNU,
The BJP President wondered if the Congress leader had joined hands with separatists.
Rahul attacked the BJP and RSS over the JNU row, saying they do not have respect for diversity of the nation’s culture and wanted to control everyone’s views.” Gandhi said at a party meeting in Gohpur in Assam’s Sonitpur district.
“The BJP and RSS are following an agenda of creating divide and hatred, as can be seen from the recent developments in JNU, by imposing their views forcibly on people,”
“They find terrorism everywhere, even in universities and brand anybody who do not agree with their views as terrorists,” he added.
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