JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar said soon after his release this evening that he was made the victim of a media trial. “I will now write my own story. I started writing in jail,” he told a private news channel.
Kanhaiya, who returned to the JNU campus after 21 days, after he was charged with sedition and arrested, was released on Thursday evening from Tihar amid high-security. He said he regularly monitored the news on TV and read the newspapers.
“I never said anything anti India... I am confident that the truth will prevail, true facts are emerging slowly,” he said at the home of a faculty member on the JNU campus where he was reunited with his friends and supporters. He added though that he was “prepared for the long fight.”
Kanhaiya, a PhD student at the prestigious university, was released from the prison at 6:30 pm and accorded a spirited welcome by a group of students and teachers on being handed over to them.
Jubilations at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus which erupted after Kumar was granted bail on Wednesday by the Delhi High Court acquired a new momentum with the students, agitating since his arrest, taking out a march shouting slogans like Jai Kanhaiya Lal ki.