BJP is following divisive agenda: Kanhaiya Kumar
Hyderabad, Oct. 2: All India Students' Federation leader Kanhaiya Kumar launched a blistering attack on the BJP- led National Democratic Alliance ( NDA) government Tuesday, alleging that it was following a “divisive” agenda.
The former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president also alleged that a corporate loot was taking place in the country.
“The present government is a government of corporate loot. It is our primary responsibility to remove it. We are forming a united front for it,” he said, without elaborating.
Mr Kumar said no decision had been taken on his contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
“Whenever this question is asked, I reply that this is not decided yet,” he said at a Meet the Press event organised by the Hyderabad Union of Journalists ( HUJ) here.
Mr Kumar claimed that the common people of Begusarai in Bihar wanted him to contest the parliamentary polls, but neither his party CPI nor its allies had announced him as a candidate, nor was there any direct talk with him on the issue.
He alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) government was following a “divisive” agenda.
Asked about the case against him, Mr Kumar claimed that no chargesheet was filed even after more than twoanda- half years.
The Delhi high court recently set aside an order of the Jawaharlal Nehru University’s appellate authority imposing a penalty on Kumar in connection with a 2016 incident, in which anti- India slogans were allegedly raised at an event.
Mr Kumar claimed he was not involved in the event.
“By taking JNU’s name, they ( government) tried to raise a grand narrative in the country that whoever speaks against the government is a naxal, jihadi, anti- national and Pakistani,” Mr Kumar said.