RSS publication calls JNU a 'huge anti-national block'

Claims JNU had openly celebrated the killing of 75 CRPF personnel in an ambush at Dantewada in 2010

Panchajanya, the official publication of the RSS, in an article described students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) as a "huge anti-national block which has the aim of disintegrating India," NDTV reported Tuesday. 

Days after publishing some lines from Vedic texts to justify the Dadri lynching, which sparked a huge controversy in the media, the publication claimed in an article supposedly written by a former JNU student that pro-Naxal students' union at JNU had openly celebrated the killing of 75 CRPF personnel in an ambush at Dantewada in 2010.

"In 2010 when Naxals in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, killed 75 paramilitary personnel, pro-Naxal students union of the university celebrated openly and hailed the act. And all this happened under the nose of the JNU administration," news website FirstPost quoted the publication as saying.
 

The article also accuses JNU of relying on the state for resources (JNU is a central university funded by the government), saying it "is nothing but capitalism masquerading as socialism and even Maoism."

"Jawahar Lal Nehru promoted higher educational and research institutions as factories of socialist ideology which could provide the intellectual input for his and later Indira Gandhi's social and economic agenda," and apparently Nehru's closeness to the the Soviet Block inspired the political ideology of the institution, the article says, adding after the disintegration of the Soviet bloc, a new political thought emerged. Institutions like JNU started changing their political slogan from class struggle to caste struggle.