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The Hindu: State overreachधोखा on the campus
The Union government’s response to the
recent developments at Jawaharlal Nehru University betrays धोखा देता है a disquietingबेचैन intent इरादा to create an atmosphere of fear
amongst its students and teachers.
The rationaleतर्क for the police action was an event to
mark the anniversary of the executionफाँसीं of Afzal Guru, a convictअपराधी in the Parliament attack case, and it is alleged कथित तौर पर that slogans were raised against India’s sovereigntyप्रभुता. However, unless there was actual incitementउत्तेजना to violence, there really was no case for the police to swoop
down नीचे की तरफ झपट्टा मारनाon the campus, arrest students, and slap charges of sedition and
criminal conspiracyसाजिश on them. The Delhi Police seemed to
have taken the cue संकेत from a remark made by Union Home
Minister Rajnath Singh that “anti-national activities” would not be tolerated,
and invokedलागू the draconianकठोर pre-Constitution law of seditionविद्रोह. The arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, president of the JNU Students’
Union, who belongs to the All-India Students’ Federation, an organisation known
to be affiliatedसम्बद्ध to the CPI, is quite inexplicableअकथनीय, except in terms of the theory that he was chosen for his
political antipathyघृणा to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi
Parishad, the RSS’s student wing. Neither his union nor the party to which it
is affiliated supports separatismअलगाववाद in Kashmir or opposes parliamentary
democracy. The union has in fact disassociatedअलग itself from the views expressed by a
small group of students who organised the event. Yet, an impression is sought
to be created that Mr. Kumar and many other like-minded student activists in
JNU are ‘anti-national’.
Once again, Section 124-A of the Indian
Penal Code, which makes sedition punishable with life imprisonment, has been
casually invoked despite the Supreme Court repeatedlyबार-बार cautioningसावधान that even words indicating
disaffection against the state will not constituteका गठन the offence, unless there is a call for violence or a perniciousतेज़ tendency to create public disorder. It is difficult to dismiss
the police action as a routine or expected response by the state to reports of
allegedly anti-national speeches. The JNU campus nurturesलालन-पालन
political opinion of all shades. It is a havenआश्रय for legitimateवैध dissentमतभेद and a locus ठिकाना of inevitableअपरिहार्य differences. Its atmosphere should not
be underminedकम आंका by some to whom its intellectual space is an eyesoreजाला. In recent times, the suicide of a scholar in the University of
Hyderabad roiled the student community across the country and created an
upsurgeचढ़ाव against the ruling dispensationव्यवस्था wieldingचलानेवाले its ideologicalविचारधारा influence on campus activities. The misconceivedगलत manner in which Afzal Guru was commemoratedस्मरणोत्सव by a handful of JNU students should not be a provocationउत्तेजना for tarring राल लगाना the students’ union with
the brush of allegedकथित तौर पर
anti-nationalismविरोधी राष्ट्रवाद. The government should not sense in
these developments an opportunity to suppressदबाना all dissentमतभेद and seek to kill the ideological orientationउन्मुखीकरण of some student groups. Deviationविचलन from its own notionधारणा of nationalism cannot be treated as seditionविद्रोह. The line between dissentमतभेद
and treason राज-द्रोह may be thin to some, but the ability
to distinguishभेद between the two is a constitutional duty of the state. And given
the history of its misuse and its incompatibilityबेजोड़ता with a modern Constitution, Section
124-A of the IPC ought to be junked कचरा altogether.
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