Don’t want to use the support I have got from public: Kanhaiya

Cautioning against any interference in the legal system, JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday said he had full faith in the country’s judiciary and hoped it is not influenced by the RSS.

“Those who were burning flags earlier are now standing with the same flags asking people to show their nationalism certificates. I have faith in judiciary and Constitution but what they should do should not be decided in Nagpur at RSS headquarters,” Kanhaiya said in an interview.

The 29-year-old research scholar, who walked out of Tihar on Thursday on interim bail after being lodged there for 18 days in a sedition case, said his agenda is not to be a politician but to be a teacher.

“I am an activist as a student and I will be an activist as a professor as well five years down the line. I do not have any intentions to join mainstream politics. Neither I want to use the kind of support I have got from public at large for petty political gains,” he said.

According to Kanhaiya, the entire row about the university being allegedly branded as anti-national has created a particular image of the varsity which is affecting the students.

“I was inside, what was happening outside jail, I was getting to know only from news reports. It’s not just Left supporters which stood by me but also those who haven’t been able to decide whether they should hold the left flag or the right are also coming out in support of JNU,” he said.

“I am being told students are finding it difficult travelling in trains if passengers get to know they are from JNU, autowallahs are refusing to ferry them. This is the sad part of this controversy, rest all is a fight which will go on,” he added.