All Indian Student Federation (AISF) leader from JNU, Kanhaiya Kumar said in Bengaluru on Thursday that there was a suffocating atmosphere in the country which curtailing freedom of expression. Kumar was in Bengaluru to address a ‘Meet the Press’ programme organised by Bengaluru Press Club and Bengaluru Reporters guild.
He said “There is a suffocating atmosphere in the country, seriously curtailing the freedom of expression, a basic right. Students are being punished, gagged for expressing their opinions. Even though it’s many months since Najeeb Ahmed, a first year bio-tech student in JNU, went missing no action has been taken yet,” He added that no action had been initiated against the three ABVP students who had a fight with him last.
He also said how the autonomy of institutions is being compromised in the country.
Kumar said “I and other student union leaders want student union elections to be allowed in every educational institution in the country. Even the lyngdoh Committee, appointed by the Supreme Court, recommended the same” .
Kanhaiya Kumar a research scholar from JNU says he wants to teach and won’t join any political party.
“I will not join any political party or start a new one. I am a research scholar and I want to teach. But, I will strive hard to build an organic link between social and political movement for which a vibrant students’ union election in educational institutions is a prerequisite,” said Kanhaiya Kumar.
“I and other student union leaders want student union elections to be allowed in every educational institution in the country. Even the lyngdoh Committee, appointed by the Supreme Court, recommended the same,” he said.