A day after the president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on the charge of sedition, his parents in Bihar said their son is not anti-national and is being victimised for his opposition to Hindutva politics.
My son is not anti-national. There is no question of his following an ideology of anti-nationalism. He is a nationalist like hundreds of thousands of youths of his age, Kanhaiya Kumars father Jaishankar Singh, who is suffering from paralysis, said on Saturday.
Kanhaiyas mother Meena Devi said her son is a nationalist, but not a supporter of RSS-BJPs Hindutva politics.
We are proud of his Left ideology. There is nothing wrong in it. He has been fighting against right wing politics and now being targeted for it, she said.
His parents live at Bihar Maslanpur village in Begusarai district, considered a stronghold of the Left wing or communist politics in the state. There was a time when Begusarai was known as Leningrad of Bihar, but no more.
Singh said his son was arrested under a conspiracy by his political rivals. My son is a Left party activist and rivals of Left ideology are playing dirty politics.
Meena said that she is confident and sure that his son will win the battle against Hindutva politics.
Most of the villagers of Kanhaiyas native place are sad over his arrest on the charge of sedition.
We had celebrated last year when Kanhaiya was elected JNU students union president. It was a proud moment for us. But now we are upset at his arrest. It is a matter of disbelief for us to accept that he is anti-national, a village youth Santosh Kumar said.
Another villager Ramchander Singh supported Santoshs view and said Kanhaiya cannot be anti-national. Our soil has produced only nationalists so far.
Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on Friday allegedly for raising anti-India slogans at an event organised by students on JNU campus to commemorate the death of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, who was executed in 2013.
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