Jammu, February 14: Themedia is abuzz with different versions of the shameful incident that happened at Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) with the ‘overground’ workers busy in churning out the ‘real stories’ of the day to bail the traitors out and blame the Modi government for saffronisation of the education sector roping in so called intellectuals and well known Modi baiters to do the job.
The latest buzz in this sector is that nothing of the sort happened at all and it were the ‘pro-government’ channels like Zee TV and Times Now that ‘mislead’ the nation through their ‘doctored’ videos of the incident and adding that instead it were the ABVP activists who raised anti-national slogans to malign the ‘innocent’ ‘intellectuals’ of JNU.
The irony is that India is mushrooming with these half backed intellectuals of JNU who want us to believe that everything is honky dory in the university and to prove that they churn out fake stories to mislead the nation and bailout their colleagues little realizing that times have changed and now it is not so easy to befool the investigating agencies to get their ‘innocent’ ‘nationalists’ out of jail.
Here is an account of one such half backed intellectual who claims to be a scholar at JNU and gives his version contradicting himself time and again.
This so called intellectual has tried to mislead the nation by interpreting the anti-national slogans in Kashmiri Urdu and is shamefully trying to say that the anti-national slogans meant something else.
However this intellectual gets exposed in his own writing when any Indian particularly a Kashmiri reads his post. The bundle of lies and shamelessness is here for you to read between the lines.
[{“….I am a JNU student studying right now and also happen to be a witness from distance for some events that happened on that controversial date – 9th February 2016. So, that kinda renders me more legitimate to answer this question than people who only know about it through Zee News and Times Now…..
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“Tum kitne Afzal maaroge, har ghar se Afzal niklega!”
Now, I did not study the case closely, and hence, would believe in the courts of India and therefore, I believe Afzal Guru was a terrorist. Though principally I am against capital punishment.
However, this group of students believed that he did not deserve capital punishment and also have their skepticism about his involvement in the parliamentary attack. I am picking up this from wikipedia –
“It has to be noted, that in its judgement of 5 August 2005, the supreme court admitted that the evidence against Guru was only circumstantial, and that there was no evidence that he belonged to any terrorist group or organisation.”
And this directly from the Supreme Court judgement:
“The incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation and the collective conscience of the society will only be satisfied if the capital punishment is awarded to the offender.”
So, a group of students believe that Afzal Guru was framed, had no role in the attack on the parliament and his capital punishment was wrong. Big deal?
And were therefore shouting, “Har ghar se Afzal niklega!”
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Now, I’ll come to the most controversial part – the slogans against India.
In the meeting, there was a whole group of Kashmiri students which had come from outside JNU to attend the meeting. If you would even look closely at the video that is being circulated, you will only see these students who had formed a circle in the center of the gathering. And trust me ,not one of whom was from JNU! I was present during the event for some time, and I could not recognize a single face from that group as being from JNU.
This group of students, who belonged to Kashmir, and had faced the wrath of the AFSPA for decades, were angered to see ABVP disrupt their meeting, and started shouting the slogans against India, like:
“Bharat ki barbaadi tak, jung rahegi, jung rahegi!”
“India, Go Back”
In my almost 2.5 years of stay in JNU, I have never heard these slogans shouted anywhere. These are nowhere even close to the ideology of any left parties, let alone DSU.
To make things clearer, here is what a Kashmiri student who is not a JNU student and who was not present in the meeting, has written about the slogans on his facebook wall, after hearing them on youtube:
“Let me do the “DECONSTRUCTION” not Derridian but ‘Kashmiri deconstruction’ of the slogans that have become so controversial.
1. BHARAT KEE BARBADI TAK JANG RAHEY GEE
Bharat for a Kashmiri young men and women who were born in 1990s and after means Indian Military Establishment. The representative image of Indian state is always, Men-in-uniform-with-weapons.
BARBADI is used in the same lexicon as it’s used by different organizations in India. It means end to the military occupation of Kashmir.
JANG means struggle, whether peaceful, Gandhian, Marxian, Gramscian or violent depends on your interpretation of the word.
I hope it leads to some clarity. Anyways it might be a ‘fringe’ slogan in spaces like JNU but it’s a ‘mass’ slogan in Kashmir.
2. AZADI: The word AZADI, which is the most confusing word for ‘Indians’. Let me simplify it for you. It’s not a seditious slogan nor is it secessionist. AZADI as a slogan is historically, socially, culturally, conceptually and principally rooted in the principle of Right to Self Determination of people belonging to a region occupied by two nation-states identified as Kashmir.
Let me add more, Azadi is a synonym of Resistance and has a very deep aspirational value attached to it.”
About the slogans of ‘Pakistan Zindabad’, it is disputed. I did not hear any such slogan while I was present there. There is a slogan in a video, but it’s not clear as to who shouted it – the Kashmiri students or the ABVP as a conspiracy, as this video below explains:”}].
Decide for yourself what this overground worker of the anti-national brigade wants to say.