Just days after the Left Unity clinched all four important posts in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union elections, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman alleged that there were forces within the campus who were “waging war against India.” She added it was “also seen with the elected representatives of the students’ union.”
Speaking during an interaction with journalists in New Delhi, Sitharaman on Tuesday, 18 September, said that she felt “sad at many things happening” in the university, over the last few years, reported The Indian Express.
An alumnus of the JNU, Sitharaman added that the “kind of things” happening over the last few years have not been “encouraging at all.”
She alleged that people who were leading the JNUSU were openly participating in such (anti-national activities) programmes, and that one shouldn’t “hesitate to say anti-India led” students’ union, reported The Indian Express, quoting Sitharaman.
The JNUSU released a statement later in the day stating that it was “deeply dismayed” by Sitharaman’s statements. The students’ union also called it “utterly baseless and condemnable.”
(With inputs from The Indian Express.)
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