Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has warned the Narendra Modi government that targeting ‘innocent students’ of JNU will prove to be very costly to his government.
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He said, “No one supports anti-national forces. But targetting innocent students using that as an excuse will prove v costly to Modi govt.”
No one supports anti-national forces. But targetting innocent students using that as an excuse will prove v costly to Modi govt
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) February 12, 2016
Kejriwal’s comments hours after the country’s top intellectuals compared the police action on the JNU campus with that of the Emergency era.
The police on Friday had arrested the leader of the student union in JNU on sedition charges. Kanhaiya Kumar rubbished the charges levelled against him adding that ‘This is false, I did not raise any slogan. They don’t have any evidence.’
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