Omar says attack fallout of hate campaign against him
The BJP, termed the incident as dicey†and demanded a thorough probe into it by the Delhi police.
New Delhi: Politicians, student leaders and actors, condemned the alleged attack on JNU student leader Umar Khalid outside the Constitution Club here on Monday, saying the incident was the fallout of a “hate campaign” against him on social media and mainstream media..
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah tweeted, “Wage a motivated hate campaign against individuals & sooner or later someone will feel emboldened enough to take the law into their own hands. The attack on @UmarKhalidJNU is the direct result of the relentless hate campaign using both social & mainstream media. Glad he’s well.”
Condemning the attack, dalit leader and independent MLA from Gujarat, Jignesh Mevani said that last month when Mr Khalid, Shehla Rashid, and he received death threats, they had sought police protection “and even now none has been given any kind of security.”
Tagging the official Twitter handle of the PMO, he posted: “Even those media groups, who are working to help BJP achieve political gains and call Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, and Shehla Rashid as members of ‘tukde tukde gang’ and ‘anti-nationals’ are also to be blamed for the attack.”
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) called the attack as a “culmination of the hate filled propaganda spewed by the Modi government” against him and against all those who have questioned this regime.
JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar tweeted in Hindi and said, “What could be a bigger evidence of jungle raj in the country than that the copies of the Constitution are burnt and Umar Khalid is fired at. The confidence of criminals has increased under the current government and media.”
The AAP slammed the police for attack on the student leader, saying it was a “major security breach” in the vity before Independence Day.
The BJP, termed the incident as “dicey” and demanded a thorough probe into it by the Delhi police.
Senior BJP leader and New Delhi MP Meenakshi Lekhi demanded the police conduct a thorough probe into the incident.