Pro-Naxal Students Greet Chidambaram with Slogans, Black Flags at JNU
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has been greeted with slogans and black flags at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) by a group of pro-Naxal students who snubbed the government’s operations against the rebels, said media reports.
Chidambaram was in the university for his lecture at a seminal on ‘Naxalism: Threat to Indian Democracy and Internal Security’ conducted by pro-Congress NSUI.
After the minister reached the venue at the School of Social Sciences auditorium at around 2130 hours, activists belonging to All India Students Association (AISA) and Democratic Students Union (DSU) shouted slogans against him outside the auditorium, said reports.
As many as 150 students who were shouting slogans, carried placards reading ‘Chidambaram, Go Back’, ‘Stop Operation Green Hunt’ and ‘Hang Afzal Guru’, reports said.
“The corporates and Hindu fundamentalists are the biggest threat to democracy, not Naxalism,” said one of the pamphlets issued by DSU.
On the other hand, pro-CPM Students Federation of India opposed killing of innocent people by Maoists, they also questioned Chidambaram’s approach to tackle the Naxal problem, said reports.
“We are not convinced that your security-centric approach and muscle-flexing vis-a-vis the Maoists is an effective way of dealing with the problem,” said SFI in an ‘open letter’ to Chidambaram.
(Based on internet reports)
