BJP launches multi-pronged attack on Kanhaiya, Rahul and Left parties

Union minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy on Sunday said that JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar was an “aberration” and not a hero, while asserting that the Left parties were taking refuge in universities, media and NGOs. “Left parties have disintegrated in most parts of the world. 

They have no place in the political scene and as such are moving to the media, universities and NGOs. It is through these that they are trying to influence the minds of the people,” Rudy said. 

When asked whether Kanhaiya had become a hero with the Left parties planning to make him campaign for their candidates in the coming Assembly polls in West Bengal, the Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Parliamentary Affairs said no right-thinking person who believed in nationalism would tolerate the acts and speeches of the JNUSU leader.

Meanwhile, Kerala BJP President Kummanam Rajasekharan has claimed that the participation of Kanhaiya Kumar during the Assembly poll campaign in the state will only damage prospects of Congress and Left parties and not BJP. 

“If Kanhaiah Kumar is coming to Kerala, we will welcome because we will get a chance to explain what happened in JNU. We will invite students from JNU. They will come. We are interested in having a debate. We are not afraid of Kanhaiya Kumar,” he said.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who was in Vrindavan on Sunday, launched a stinging attack on Rahul Gandhi for voicing “sympathies” for “those who raised slogans for breaking up India” and said it was the Congress vice president’s “ideological hollowness” that he did something that likes of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi never did. 

The senior BJP leader also termed JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar’s speech, delivered following his release on bail, a “victory for us”, saying he had gone to jail for raising anti-India slogans but came back to speak amid slogans of ‘Jai Hind’ and hoisting of the tricolour. 

BJP fulfilled its “national responsibility and emerged victorious”, he said, referring to Kanhaiya’s speech without naming the JNU Student Union President.