WANI DIVIDES THE LEFT

There seems to be a full blown war amongst the left lobby post the Burhan Wani episode. For it seems that many of the left wing talking heads have problems with Umar Khalid and Kavita Krishnan for their apparent sympathy for Wani, the Hizbul Mujahideen recruiter who was eliminated last fortnight by the security forces. Khalid, a JNU student already facing charges for sedition, earned the ire of his fellow comrades when he recently compared Wani to Che Guevara; while Krishnan, a politburo member of the CPI(ML) has termed the killing “extra judicial”. Other left wing leaders are not too comfortable with the glorification/justification of a terrorist recruiter, and most especially with the Guevara comparison.