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Kanhaiya Kumar

Arrested JNU Student Union president Kanhaiya Kumar was attacked by lawyers at Patiala House court on Wednesday. Photo: ANI

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	Kanhaiya Kumar is a politician affiliated with the Indian National Congress and a former student union leader. He unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bihar&#39;s Begusarai constituency, often referred to as the Leningrad of Bihar, on a Communist Party of India (CPI) ticket, with which he was affiliated till 2021.</div>
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	Kanhaiya was the president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students&#39; Union (JNUSU) in 2016 when a huge controversy erupted over slogans raised at an event organised on the university campus. A first information report (FIR) was lodged against several students of the university, including him. He was subsequently arrested for alleged seditious activities and granted bail later. However, a magisterial inquiry concluded that there was no video footage of him participating in the so-called &#39;anti-national&#39; sloganeering that night.</div>

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	Born in 1987 in Bihar&#39;s Begusarai, Kanhaiya&#39;s involvement in student politics began when he was studying at the College of Commerce in Patna. After completing his graduation in Geography, he completed a doctorate in African Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2019.</div>
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	In the past few years, Kanhaiya has emerged as a prominent political activist driving the Left in several parts of the country. He has often shared the stage at political rallies with other young leaders like Jignesh Mevani and Hardik Patel. Kumar&#39;s autobiography, Bihar to Tihar: My Political Journey was published in October 2016. The book captures his story of childhood in rural Bihar, college days in Patna, and political coming of age in Delhi.</div>
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	Kanhaiya has been known for his sharp critique of the ruling party and the Narendra Modi-led central government at several forums. He became a known name overnight after his speech at JNU upon release from jail in 2016.</div>
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	In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, he was up against Union Minister Giriraj Singh. During his campaign, Kumar raised the highest permissible election expenditure mandated by the Election Commission, Rs 70 lakh, through crowd-funding.</div>
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	The 2024 Lok Sabha election race for the North East Delhi seat between Kanhaiya Kumar and Manoj Tiwari has been a close one, but with 53.1 per cent vote share BJP candidate Tiwari secured the win, while Kanhaiya managed to secure 685,673 votes or 44.16 per cent vote share. Twenty eight candidates contested for the LS seat including Kanhaiya and Tiwari, but all of the other 27 candidates were not able to get even one per cent of the vote share individually. According to the estimates of various political parties, the North East Delhi Lok Sabha seat has a heavy presence of migrants from Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh. Since 2021, Kanhaiya has been quite active with the Congress party and has campaigned for them in various state polls.</div>

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