Kanhaiya walks free, challenges PM Modi in JNU speech
In a speech addressed to students which appeared a no-holds-barred attack on the government and was targetted particularly at Narendra Modi, Kanhaiya said : "PM Modi spoke about Stalin and Khrushchev today in Parliament. I felt like going inside the TV and hold him and ask him why he is not talking about Hitler too sometimes."
Amid changing of slogans of azadi (freedom) from hunger and corruption, he said the government is scared of JNU and students are used as tools to slap sedition charges.
He said a BJP minister [read Smriti Irani] in Parliament said there were anti-India slogans when soldiers are dying in border while it is a fact that the soldier tying in the border is a poor farmer's son often.
He mocked Modi saying the Prime Minister tweeted "Satyamev Jayate" (may truth win) after his bail while the government released doctored videos about him.
He said : "The more you try to crush us more we fight. It is a long fight."
"JNU wants freedom not from India but from those who are looting India," he said.
He said the PM talks "Maan Ki Baat" (referring to PM's radio address) but does not listen to other people's voices.
Kanhaiya said he was in jail and spoke to the jail guards and heard what they said and felt they too are like him, hailing from poor families and perhaps working there because they did not get a chance to pursue Ph.D in JNU.
Kumar walked out free, his supporters celebrated.
Kumar was granted an interim bail of six months on Wednesday.
The Delhi High Court granted him bail on a surety of Rs 10,000.
Several JNU students were arrested for allegedly glorifying Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and being part of an event where anti-India slogans were raised, triggering a nationwide debate that sharply divided the people.
Kumar was arrested first on sedition charges after anti-India slogans were raised inside the JNU campus at the event.
Later other students, including Umar Khalid, surrendered to police.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament said that anyone can ask questions in India because this is not Stalin's Russia.
Addressing the house in reply to a motion of thanks to the President’s address, the PM said India is not Stalin's Russia and people can ask questions, without directly referring to the JNU controversy.
He said after Stalin's death in Russia his successor Nikita Khrushchev would criticize Stalin a lot and when asked by a youth why he would keep silent during the lifetime of Stalin he had answered- 'You have got the answer. What you are able to ask now, I wanted to but couldn't when Stalin was there.'
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