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CM says no decision taken yet on Kanhaiya sedition row
The Delhi government has not yet taken any decision on the prosecution sanction against former JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday.
New Delhi : The Delhi government has not yet taken any decision on the prosecution sanction against former JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday.
Following which Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari on Friday alleged that the AAP government not yet sanctioning prosecution of the accused in the 2016 JNU sedition case implies that it feels "anti-national slogans" raised at the university are "patriotic".
Kejriwal, however, said the Delhi government's home department will take the appropriate decision after taking all information into consideration. There will be neither political interference nor any pressure from the AAP dispensation in the case, Kejriwal asserted. "The Delhi government has not yet taken any decision on it (prosecution sanction in the case)," the chief minister told reporters.
Referring to some media reports that the AAP government may decline sanction to prosecute former JNU students including union president Kanhaiya in the 2016 JNU sedition case, Manoj Tiwari said it is "highly condemnable" and has caused widespread "anger" among people.
"If an elected government supports a slogan like 'Bharat ki barbadi tak jang rahegi jari' and thinks that it does not involve any punishment, then it means the government thinks it as a patriotic slogans. The BJP condemns this stand of the AAP," Tiwari said in a press conference.
The Delhi BJP chief along with Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Vijender Gupta addressed the press conference sporting black armbands in protest over the issue. Also members of the Delhi BJP's Intellectual cell, led by Amit Kharkari, held a protest in front of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence.
On January 14, police had filed a charge sheet in the court against Kumar and others, saying he was leading a procession and supported seditious slogans raised in the JNU campus during an event on February 9, 2016.
