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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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
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
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
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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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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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