Students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), who have been in the thick of news for almost two months now, plan to meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and President of India Pranab Mukherjee to talk about the ongoing issues that have taken place on the campus, said JNU Students Union (JNUSU) vice-president Shehla Rashid Shora.
Speaking to this reporter here on Sunday, on the sidelines of a press conference here at Lamakaan, Ms. Shora said “He is a constitutional authority and the Home Minister of the entire country. We have already asked for a meeting with him, but we have not heard back from him so far.” The JNUSU vice-president claimed that a ‘very rabid’ campaign has been organised by the RSS against her and other students from the varsity.
Ms. Shora, in Hyderabad along with a few other students from the JNU, was disallowed from conducting a public meeting at the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU). “We were supposed to conduct a programme there, but the administration disallowed it. The same thing that happened in the JNU has also taken place there,” she stated, while addressing a press conference.
Fielding questions from the media about the events that took place in the JNU on the night of February 9, Ms. Shora said that there was a difference of opinion between people concerning the hanging of Afzal Guru. “Ambedkarites are against the death penalty, be it for those who killed Rajiv Gandhi or anyone else,” she added.
