JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar writes open letter to Modi

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar on Monday wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, targeting him on a range of issues. Saying that “a situation of emergency has been created in every university”, Kumar in his Facebook page wrote the open letter to Modi asking him: “Is this the situation that you were promising when you were chanting the slogan of ‘Achche Din’ across the length and breadth of the nation?” “You (Modi) have handed the reins of our temples of learning into the hands of those who are not just averse to knowledge but also determined and proven opponents of history, art, culture and logic,” the JNUSU president wrote. Kumar accused Modi for returning favours to those who financially paved his ascent to power. Kumar said that no new jobs have been created, farmers are killing themselves, poor are increasingly becoming poorer, students can’t afford to study, those who do make it to the various universities face caste-based humiliation and discrimination.