CM Arvind Kejriwal slams JNU V-C, PM Modi over missing student

Missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed will come back when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will realise that he is losing youth votes, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday. The chief minister made the comments at a solidarity meeting on the JNU campus.

Alleging inaction by university administration, Mr Kejriwal said that the JNU vice chancellor has done very little to trace the missing student as he is scared of going missing himself if he did so.

“The movement for demanding justice for Najeeb needs to come to mainstream. The vice-chancellor is also scared that if he will take any action he will also go missing,” Mr Kejriwal said.

“He will come back only with the help of people’s power. Let’s sit at India Gate and appeal to the entire country to fight for Najeeb. I am with you and will join you in the protest,” Mr Kejriwal said.

Mr Kejriwal has also written to Union home minister Rajnath Singh and will meet President Pranab Mukherjee when he returns from his Nepal visit.

Accusing the ruling BJP of polarising the society, the CM said that it is neither a party for the Hindus nor for Muslims. “They will even sell their father for power. The police will not dare to pursue any investigation in this regard as RSS’ students’ wing ABVP was involved in the brawl following which Najeeb went missing. Whoever opposes them, will be considered as anti-national and go missing,” Mr Kejriwal said.

“If Najeeb was Ambani’s son Modiji would have taken a flight to visit him but this will not attract his attention.”

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, former Union minister Mani Shankar Aiyar, CPM leader Prakash Karat also spoke at the solidarity meet. The gathering turned little emotional when Mr Ahmed’s mother broke down at least twice. “Please give me my son back and I will not tell anything to anybody. If something happens to him, I would die,” said Najeeb’s mother Fatima Nafees.

Mr Tharoor demanded an independent investigation into the missing case. “There is a need of serious investigation which can go beyond what this university administration is entrusted with. Even the police require answering some questions. An explanation has to be given by both V-C and the police on why campus was not searched immediately after the young man went missing,” he said.

Mr Karat said that there is an attempt to destroy the very ethos of the university.