Gogoi criticises Centre for 'mishandling' of JNU row

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today criticised the NDA government for its "mishandling" of the ongoing JNU row saying the way Delhi Police was acting thousands of people would have to be put behind bars under the sedition law in Assam.
"They are completely mishandling the JNU issue. If the way police is handling the issue (is followed), thousands of people in Assam would have to be arrested under the sedition law," he said at a press conference here.
Gogoi said it was very common in Assam to deliver inflammatory speeches which one can term as "anti-national".
"But things do not work like that. You can't arrest everyone on sedition charges. You have to be rational," he said.

A huge controversy has broken out after the arrest of JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charge.
JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who surrendered before the police last night, were arrested today.
The students, along with three others, had allegedly organised an event on February 9 against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
Anti-India slogans were allegedly raised during the event in JNU, leading to registration of a sedition case.