After Chief Minister Nitish Kumar supported arrested JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, RJD supremo lalu Prasad demanded his immediate release and urged the Centre to constitute a Parliamentary Committee to probe the charges against him.
lalu said, “Kanhaiya is son of Begusarai, a son of Bihar, a son of India and he cannot raise anti-national slogans. The entire episode should be investigated. The Parliament session is nearing and the Centre can appoint a Parliamentary panel for probing the charges.”
Meanwhile, the rebel BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha once again took a line different from his party and said Kanhaiya’s arrest was wrong. In his tweet he said the student leader did not deliver anti-national speech.
The BJP leadership rose against the Patna Sahib MP and Bihar BJP president Mangal Pandey said Sinha should resign his lok Sabha seat before speaking against party line.
He said, “The Government has taken a right decision against Kanhaiya. If Shatrughan Sinha has any objection he should first resign from the Parliament seat then speak whatever he wants to say.”
BJP MlA Nitin Navin said, “So far Shatrughan had been giving anti-party statements now he is issuing anti-national statements and defaming Bihar.”
Union Minister Giriraj Singh said case of sedition should be filed against all of them who raise anti-India slogan and favour Afzal Guru and also against those who favour such elements.
The RJD and JD(U) came in favour of Shatrughan Sinha and said he has taken a right stand. “We are also against falsely implicating Kanhaiya by the Centre,” said Bihar JD(U) president Bashistha Narain Singh.
lalu said the BJP-led Centre in bid to hide its failures has raised the issue of nationalism and communalising the society. “The Centre has failed on all counts and by raking up communal issues wants to uplift its sagging image,” he said.