Three office-bearers of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) of ABVP on Wednesday resigned and ‘disassociated’ themselves from the party over ‘difference of opinion’ on the current incident at JNU and suicide by Rohith Vermula of Hyderabad University.
Pradeep Narwal, joint secretary of JNU unit of ABVP, Rahul Yadav, president of ABVP unit of JNU’s School of Social Sciences (SSS) and its secretary Ankit Hans said, “We are resigning from ABVP and disassociating ourselves from any further activity of the party as per our difference of opinion over the current JNU incident and long standing difference of opinion with MANUSMIRITI (Smriti Irani) and Rohith Vermula incident.”
They said the “anti-national” slogans on February 9 on JNU campus were very “unfortunate” and “heart breaking”.
“Whosoever responsible for that act must be punished as per the law but the way the NDA Government tackling the whole issue, the oppression on professors, repeated lawyer attacks on the media and Kanhaiya Kumar in court premises is unjustifiable and we think there is a difference between interrogation and crushing ideology and branding entire left as anti-national.”
When contacted, a senior ABVP leader said the organisation has not received their resignation.
The three students further said, “We think there is a difference between interrogation and crushing ideology and branding entire left as anti-national. We cannot be mouthpiece of such a Government which has unleashed oppression on student community.
“Every day we see people assemble at front gate with Indian Flag to beat JNU student, well this is hooliganism not nationalism, you can’t do anything in the name of nation, there is a difference between nationalism and hooliganism,” it added.
The JNU students are on strike demanding release of JNUSU president Kumar. He was arrested on Friday last in connection with a case of sedition and criminal conspiracy registered over holding of the event at the varsity during which anti-India slogans were alleged to have been raised.
Members of the ABVP had objected to holding of the event following which Vice Chancellor had withdrawn the permission for it. However, the organisers had gone ahead with the event.