Twitteratti hail TMC stand on JNU row

Twitter applauded Trinamool MP from Jadavpur, Sugata Bose after his eloquent and hard-hitting intervention on the issue of recent incidents at universities. While some users praised Trinamool for fielding Sugata Bose for the debate, others praised the oratory skills of the Harvard professor and thanked him for taking the debate to the next level.

Speaking on the subject, Sugata Bose condemned the government’s heartless reaction to the death of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad. “Rohith Vemula left us a poignant message when he chose to leave this world. Rohith is not dead, he lives in the heaven above like a star,” he said.

Accusing the government of living under the impression that it has a monopoly over nationalism, the Trinamool MP went on to say, “The idea of India is not so brittle as to crumble at the echo of a few slogans.” 

In contrast to the Central government, West Bengal government knew how to defuse tension in Jadavpur University and not overreact, he added. The Jadavpur MP contended that students have the freedom to think, speak, make mistakes and learn from them.