Is Kanhaiya Kumar Planning To Leave The CPI? The Answer Is A Guarded âYesâ!
by Jaideep Mazumdar - Feb 16, 2021 06:32 AM
Kanhaiya Kumar. (Wikipedia/Kanhaiya Kumar)
Snapshot
JD(U) spokesperson Ajay Alok added to the speculation about Kanhaiya Kumar moving close to the JD(U) by saying that the CPI leader would be welcome into the party.
Alok, however, added a caveat: that Kumar would be welcome âonly if he gives up his
vikrit (perverted) ideologyâ.
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student Kanhaiya Kumar, who shot to national infamy for allegedly raising seditious slogans at the varsity campus in early 2016, may be looking to junk his communist identity.
Updated Feb 16, 2021 · 08:26 am Umar Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar and Anirban Bhattacharya. | PTI File Photo
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others are set to face trial in the 2016 sedition case after a court in Delhi on Monday took cognisance of the chargesheet filed against them, and summoned the accused on March 15, reported
The Indian Express. The action came a year after the Delhi government gave the sanction to prosecute the accused.
“The sanction to prosecute accused persons has already been filed by the Home Department, GNCT [Delhi government], dated February 27, 2020,” Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Sharma of the Patiala House Courts said. “After careful perusal of the chargesheet and consideration of the material, all the accused persons are summoned to face trial and they have been summoned through investigation officer for March 15, 2021.”