CPI-M, Cong to rally today against Centre’s handling of JNU row

Leaders of the CPI-M and the Congress will on Monday walk shoulder-to-shoulder in a rally in Kolkata to protest against the Centre’s bid to “propagate the ideology” of the BJP and the RSS with regard to the happenings at the Jawaharlal Nehru University

Leaders of the CPI-M and the Congress will on Monday walk shoulder-to-shoulder in a rally in Kolkata to protest against the Centre’s bid to “propagate the ideology” of the BJP and the RSS with regard to the happenings at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Leaders of the CPI-M and the Congress will on Monday walk shoulder-to-shoulder in a rally in Kolkata to protest against the Centre’s bid to “propagate the ideology” of the BJP and the RSS with regard to the happenings at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. (Hindustan Times)

“We will protest against the way the administration has become active to propagate the ideologies of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The civil society, various political parties, student bodies and youth will walk in a huge rally,” Jadavpur University professor and West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Om Prakash Mishra said here on Sunday.

The rallyists will assemble at College Square, and walk three km up to Dorina Crossing.

Among the leaders who would participate in the rally are Congress leaders Abdul Mannan and Arunava Ghosh, Communist Party of India-Marxist’s Sujon Chakraborty and Ritrabrata Banerjee, and former Kolkata mayor Bikash Bhattacharya.

“The main issue of the rally is freedom of speech and expression which has come under attack at JNU,” said Mishra, a JNU alumnus.

Delhi Police registered a sedition case on Thursday and arrested Kanhaiya Kumar. He was sent to three days police custody on Friday although he denied raising the slogans