In just two days, Kanhaiya Kumar has raised over Rs 25 lakh, CPI leader Satyanarayan Singh said on Thursday. 

"Hardik Patel and I will campaign for Kanhaiya Kumar. Several people across the country will visit Begusarai to campaign for him," Mevani said here on his way to Begusarai.

​Two days after the CPI fielded the former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) President from the Begusarai Lok Sabha seat in Bihar, Kanhaiya Kumar appealed to people to donate at least 1 rupee for his campaign fund.  

Former JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar has landed up in trouble after allegedly making objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. 

The Delhi Police, on its part, informed the court that the sanctions are pending with the Delhi government and are expected in a matter of days.

Meanwhile, Delhi Law Minister Kailash Gahlot on Monday issued a show-cause notice to Principal Secretary (Law) A.K. Mendiratta for clearing the sanction without his approval.

The event had taken place despite the university administration cancelling the permission following a complaint from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, which had termed it "anti-national".

The evidence listed by the agency include report of JNU's high-level committee, statement of varsity's Registrar Bhupinder Jutshi and the mobile phone recordings in which Kumar was seen arguing with him over cancellation of the programme. 

Police also charged former JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya for allegedly shouting anti-India slogans during the event.

The police arrested Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya that year for allegedly organising an event in the JNU campus against the hanging of Parliament attack mastermind Afzal Guru.

Kanhaiya Kumar is likely to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Begusarai constituency as a CPI candidate.

Protesting doctors have communicated about the incident to the Union Health Minister and the Bihar government.

"If the party (CPI) decides to nominate me as its candidate from Begusarai and other grand alliance partners also extend their support, then I don't have any objection to it," Kumar told PTI.  

The 2016 event was organised in the JNU campus against Afzal Guru’s hanging during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.

Kanahiya Kumar was assaulted by lawyers at the Patiala House court on February 15 and 17 that year while he was in police custody.

Kanhaiya Kumar and 29 other JNU students have been asked to join the probe into alleged raising of anti-national slogans on the campus in February last year.

Criticizing the Central government's decision to exempt political parties from income tax on old notes deposited by them in banks, former JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar saying that a PIL will be filed in

Twenty students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) have been presented with showcause by the varsity’s administration, seeking explanation for the alleged "illegal confinement" of Vice Chancellor and other officials in the JNU building. The

Former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University students’ union and an accused in a case of sedition Kanhaiya Kumar has called for unity among opposition parties to take on the ruling BJP government at the Centre.

The Delhi High Court today asked Jawaharlal Nehru University not to take any action against its student union president Kanhaiya Kumar till September 19 in connection with the controversial February 9 event.