General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury on Saturday charged the Vice-Chancellor of the Nagpur University and right-wing groups of “being scared of thought.”
Mr. Yechury spoke at the Dr Ambedkar College at Deekshabhoomi after Nagpur University Vice-Chancellor S.P. Kane had denied permission for his programme in the premises of the university due to “administrative reasons.”
“I don’t know why the VC is so scared of us. We are India’s soldiers and nobody can stop us from fighting for our country and dying for her. There could be no bigger form of cowardice than being scared of mere thoughts. Don’t run away from dialogue, at least listen to our thoughts,” he said.
Responding to a query on RSS’s allegations about violence against its cadres in Kerala, Mr. Yechury said seven out 11 people killed in Kerala since the last elections belonged to his party. “A bomb was hurled at the CM’s victory procession resulting in the death of our worker. Who is blaming whom here?”
On the election results, he said: “It’s not good to conclude that U.P. verdict proved the demonetisation right. The informal economy, which does not reflect in government statistics, stands destroyed.”
