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Kanhaiya Kumar

Kanhaiya Kumar

DOB: January 13, 1987

Kanhaiya Kumar is Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate from Begusarai in Bihar. He is a former president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union. He received his doctorate from JNU in 2019. Kanhaiya Kumar was born in Bihat village in Bihar. The village is in Begusarai District. He graduated in Geography from College of Commerce in Patna. He topped entrance examination of Jawaharlal Nehru University and pursued his Ph.D. in African Studies. In 2016, Kanhaiya Kumar got embroiled in a controversy after which he was arrested in connection with a program against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. He was also accused of being involved in 'anti-India' sloganeering. Kanhaiya Kumar has denied the charges. Information in the pubic domain includes Kanhaiya Kumar's statements in which he says that he always says that "Kashmir is an integral part of India". In Begusarai, Kanhaiya Kumar is facing-off with BJP MP Giriraj Singh in Lok Sabha Election 2019.

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JNU Row: Hostel wardens of Umar, Anirban asked to hand over duo’s laptops

India | Mar 14, 2016, 09:44 PM IST

JNU Row: Hostel wardens of Umar, Anirban asked to hand over duo’s laptops

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JNU row: Univ report finds 21 students guilty of holding Afzal Guru event, issues show-cause notice

India | Mar 14, 2016, 11:33 PM IST

A high-level internal committee of the Jawaharlal Nehru University today issued show-cause notices to 21 JNU students including Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya.

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Kanhaiya Kumar was fined for ‘misbehaving’ with girl in 2015

India | Mar 12, 2016, 05:09 PM IST

Kanhaiya Kumar was fined for ‘misbehaving’ with girl in 2015

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Sedition accused Kanhaiya Kumar responds to Jhanvi’s open debate challenge (video)

India | Mar 12, 2016, 07:54 AM IST

JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is facing sedition charge, has finally responded to the open debate challenge from a 15-year-old girl from Ludhiana.

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Kanhaiya Kumar asks authorities no to take action against his attacker

India | Mar 11, 2016, 11:32 AM IST

President of the JNU Students’ Union Kanhaiya Kumar was today attacked in the university campus.

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Kanhaiya was fined by JNU for alleged 'misbehaviour' with girl student

India | Mar 10, 2016, 06:58 PM IST

Amid a raging row at JNU, it has now emerged that its students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is facing sedition charge, was fined by the varsity administration last year for allegedly "misbehaving" with a girl student and "threatening" her.

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Kanhaiya sparks fresh row with his army remark

India | Mar 10, 2016, 07:37 AM IST

New Delhi: The youth wing of BJP, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, has lodged a police complaint against JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar for his remarks on the security forces in Kashmir. Addressing a gathering of women

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JNU professor exposes Kanhaiya Kumar, asks if he checked his facts

India | Mar 08, 2016, 06:23 PM IST

New Delhi: Makarand Paranjape, poet and professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University on Monday took on students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar who is facing sedition charge, asking him whether he checked his facts before

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Kanhaiya vows 'azadi' for Umar, Anirban; says will lead movement

India | Mar 07, 2016, 09:34 PM IST

New Delhi: Days after his conditional release in a case of sedition, JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar today said he will lead the movement demanding the release of two other varsity students Umar Khalid

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Police arrest man who announced Rs 11 lakh bounty on Kanhaiya's head

India | Mar 07, 2016, 09:22 PM IST

New Delhi: Adarsh Sharma, the man who barged his way into headlines after announcing a reward of Rs 11 lakh for anyone who shoots JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, was arrested by the Delhi Police today.

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We stand with JNU students but will they stand with Gilani, asks family

India | Mar 07, 2016, 05:38 PM IST

New Delhi: There are many, including us, who are party to the agitation against booking of JNU students in sedition case over an event against hanging of Afzal Guru but will JNU stand for SAR

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Man who announced 11 lakh bounty on Kanhiaya's head has Rs 150 in bank

India | Mar 07, 2016, 06:24 PM IST

New Delhi: Adarsh Sharma, the Purvanchal Sena president who announced a reward of Rs 11 lakh for killing JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar, has only Rs 150 in his bank account.According to Hindustan Times Report, Sharma

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Kanhaiya had objected to cancellation of permission for Afzal Guru event: JNU Registrar

India | Mar 06, 2016, 11:42 PM IST

New Delhi: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar had objected to cancellation of permission for the controversial event against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, JNU Registrar Bhupinder Zutshi has claimed.Zutshi, deposing before the high-power enquiry

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Kanhaiya is an aberration, nationalists don't accept it: Rajiv Pratap Rudy

Politics | Mar 06, 2016, 04:07 PM IST

Kolkata: Describing Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar as an "aberration", union minister and BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy today said such an aberration will not be accepted at the cost of nationalism.Interacting

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Arun Jaitley attacks Rahul for sympathising with those who want to "break India"

Politics | Mar 06, 2016, 04:25 PM IST

Vrindavan: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today launched a stinging attack on Rahul Gandhi for voicing "sympathies" for "those who raised slogans for breaking up India" and said it was the Congress vice president's "ideological hollowness"

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15-yr-old girl challenges Kanhaiya for an open debate on 'freedom of expression'

India | Mar 07, 2016, 06:35 AM IST

New Delhi: Irked over the ongoing fiasco over anti-national sloganeering at JNU campus, Jhanvi Behal, a 15-year-old girl from Ludhiana, has challenged JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar for an open debate on freedom of expression.Jhanvi, std

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Afzal Guru row 'constructed conspiracy' by state: JNU prof

India | Mar 06, 2016, 09:30 AM IST

New Delhi: The controversy over an event at JNU commemorating Afzal Guru's hanging during which anti- national slogans were allegedly raised was a "constructed conspiracy" of the state to defame the university, faculty member and

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AAP demands action over posters seeking Kanhaiya's elimination

Politics | Mar 05, 2016, 11:18 PM IST

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party today demanded immediate arrest and strict action in connection with the posters announcing a cash reward for anyone who "shoots down" JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar. The party said these posters can "disturb" the law and

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Modi government dismantling institutions of accountability, says Prashant Bhushan

Politics | Mar 05, 2016, 09:38 PM IST

Jaipur: Lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan today accused the NDA government at the Centre of "dismantling" institutions of accountability and "promoting fascism"."Modi government is leaving no stone unturned to dismantle all institutions of accountability, be it

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Rohith Vemula had organised meeting for Yakub Memon: VK Singh

Politics | Mar 05, 2016, 09:07 PM IST

Vrindavan: Union minister VK Singh targeted JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on Saturday for calling Rohith Vemula his inspiration, alleging that the Dalit scholar had organised a meeting in support of Mumbai blasts convict