MPs ask govt to advise JNU to review punishment to students

After CPI member D Raja raised the issue during Zero Hour and was supported by several members including Sharad Yadav (JD-U), Deputy Chairman P J Kurien also said he thought the government should try to solve the issue and asked Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi to convey the feeling of the house to the concerned ministers.

 Seeking government’s intervention, Raja said JNU students have been on indefinite fast for eight days and teachers have also joined the agitation.

“The situation is very serious. Condition of students is deteriorating. Last night JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar has been shifted to AIIMS. His health has gone down,” he said.

The students are protesting against punishment given to some of them in connection with the event during which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised.

 Raja said university has rusticated several students and imposed heavy penalties on a number of them. “Why are university authorities doing this,” he asked. “The Vice-Chancellor and university authorities must have negotiation with the students union and sort out the problem. It (the situation) cannot go out of hand,” the CPI leader said.