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A radical of JNU students raised arguable slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah wrong the University field aft the Supreme Court denied bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam successful the 2020 riots conspiracy case.
According to a purported video of the protest, which was held connected Monday (January 5, 2026) night, slogans condemning Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were raised.
Aditi Mishra, Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president, said that each year, students clasp a protestation to condemn the unit which occurred connected the field connected January 5, 2020.
"All of the slogans raised successful the protestation were ideological and bash not onslaught anyone personally. They were not directed towards anyone," Ms. Mishra said.
A elder constabulary serviceman said nary ailment has been received truthful acold successful this matter. Delhi Ministers Ashish Sood and Manjinder Singh Sirsa, however, condemned the incidental and blamed the Opposition for supporting those who indulge successful specified acts.
"Sharjeel Imam spoke astir separating Northeast India. Umar Khalid raised slogans of 'India volition beryllium breached into pieces,' and his engagement was recovered successful the 2020 riots. Such radical are shown sympathy due to the fact that determination are radical successful this Assembly who shared a signifier with Sharjeel Imam," Mr. Sood told reporters, up of the 2nd time of the Winter Session of the Delhi Assembly.
He said, “When specified radical are fixed patronage, specified things are bound to happen.” He further added, "What has happened successful JNU, wherever Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid person been supported, is condemnable and against the nation. You tin combat implicit argumentation matters, but determination is nary spot for unit successful democracy."
Echoing akin sentiments, Mr. Sirsa alleged that those who raised slogans person nary respect for the Constitution oregon law. "These are separatist people. Raising specified slogans against the Prime Minister and the Home Minister is highly shameful. The AAP and the Congress person ever supported specified people," Mr. Sirsa told reporters.
Violence erupted connected the field connected January 5, 2020, erstwhile a mob of masked men stormed the field and targeted students successful 3 hostels, unleashing mayhem with sticks, stones, and robust rods, hitting inmates and breaking windows, furniture, and idiosyncratic belongings.
At slightest 28 people, including past JNU Students' Union president Aishe Ghosh, were injured arsenic chaos reigned connected the field for astir 2 hours.
The Delhi Police had travel nether onslaught for not acting erstwhile the mob was moving riot connected the campus, and particularly for naming pupil national leaders, including Ghosh, successful the 2 FIRs related to vandalism connected the campus.
