Raja condemns attack on Kanhaiya Kumar’s convoy

CPI leader writes to Nitish Kumar

February 15, 2020 09:42 pm | Updated 09:42 pm IST - New Delhi

Hyderabad, Telangana, 25/08/2019: D. Raja, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (CPI) at Makhdoom Bhavan in Hyderabad on August 25, 2019 during his felicitation function.
Photo: G. Ramakrishna / The Hindu

Hyderabad, Telangana, 25/08/2019: D. Raja, General Secretary, Communist Party of India (CPI) at Makhdoom Bhavan in Hyderabad on August 25, 2019 during his felicitation function. Photo: G. Ramakrishna / The Hindu

CPI general secretary D. Raja has condemned the repeated attacks on Kanhaiya Kumar during his protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in Bihar. In a letter to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, he has demanded the immediate arrests of assailants.

On Friday, the convoy of Mr. Kanhaiya Kumar, a member of the CPI national executive and a former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union, was stoned by unknown persons in Arrah district.

The CPI said this was the eighth attack on the Jan-Gan-Man Yatra which Mr. Kanhaiya Kumar started at Bapudham,on January 30. “Some forces and miscreants opposed to this campaign are targeting Com. Kanhaiya Kumar and attacking his convoy. Yesterday’s attack was fatal; somehow our comrade has escaped,” Mr. Raja has said.

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