Kurukshetra: JNU controversy refuses to die, demands for VC's resignation grow
January 09, 2020 20:58 ISTKurukshetra: JNU controversy refuses to die, demands for VC's resignation grow
Kurukshetra: JNU controversy refuses to die, demands for VC's resignation grow
Bollywood star Deepika Padukone on January 7 visited the Jawaharlal Nehru University to express solidarity with the students who were attacked by a mob.
Tasleem Ahmed Rehmani, who is the National Secretary of SDPI, on Tuesday courted controversy when he said "Lord Ram is not a God" during a debate on India TV show Kurukshetra. Soon after his comments, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra, who was also a part of the debate, objected strongly to Rahmani's statement and demanded immediate apology.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University has been on the boil since Sunday when groups of masked miscreants intruded into the campus and assaulted students in Sabarmati hostel with sticks and metal rods. The Leftist students and ABVP members have been accusing each other for the violence. Police are investigating the matter.
Several masked individuals on Sunday thrashed students and teachers inside the campus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University with wooden and metal rods. A number of students were admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) with severe injuries. The Left and the ABVP have blamed each other for the attack.
Top BJP leaders led by party president Amit Shah will visit households across the country on Sunday as part of their exercise to contact three crore families in 10 days to mobilise support for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and take on opposition parties over their campaign against the law. While Shah will be in the national capital, party working president JP Nadda will visit a household in Ghaziabad, Rajnath Singh in Lucknow, Nitin Gadkari in Nagpur and Nirmala Sitharaman in Jaipur, on the first day of the campaign, BJP general secretary Anil Jain told reporters.
Pakistan-born writer and commentator Tarek Fatah weighed strongly in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Act and said that the Indian Muslims has nothing to fear from it.
Several activists and artistes on Wednesday, the first day of the new year 2020, recited poems, sang songs and performed plays to express their solidarity with people protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched a Twitter campaign in order to garner people's support on the Citizenship Amendment Act. He wrote: "#IndiaSupportsCAA because CAA is about giving citizenship to persecuted refugees & not about taking anyone's citizenship away. Check out this hashtag in Your Voice section of Volunteer module on NaMo App for content, graphics, videos & more. Share & show your support for CAA."
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Protesters pelted stones, torched vehicles and faced tear-gas shells in capital Lucknow and some other parts of Uttar Pradesh as police struggled to contain the fallout of the amended citizenship law. Meanwhile, protests broke out in several parts of the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act, resulting in violence and detention of hundreds across the country.
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Fresh protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act broke out in Seelampur area of east Delhi on Tuesday afternoon with agitators pelting stones on vehicles and buses, following which police fired tear gas shells to disperse the mob. Visuals from the spot showed many people seemingly injured during the stone pelting.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's "rape in India" remark at the Modi government at an election rally in Jharkhand triggered furious protests in Lok Sabha on Friday, as the BJP members sought an apology from him. The protest was led by BJP's women MPs
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