Govt shielding JNU culprits for PDP alliance: Digvijaya

Congress leader Digvijaya Singh today alleged that the BJP-led Centre was not taking action against those who actually shouted anti-India slogans in JNU campus because it was more concerned about forming government with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir.
Elsewhere in the city, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said the NDA government would deal with the anti-national elements with a firm hand.
"No charges were framed against Umar (Khalid) who actually organised the event in commemoration of Afzal Guru. It was he and others who raised anti-national slogans but no action has been taken against them. But Kanhaiya Kumar, against whom there is not a single evidence that he raised anti-India slogans, was charged and arrested. This exposes the doublespeak of the BJP," Singh said.

Noting that it was a "clear fight between ideologies", he regretted that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was being branded as anti-national for having taken up a fight against BJP's ideology of "exploitation".
Singh was addressing a press conference at the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters here this evening after the party coordination committee and extended executive committee meetings ended.
Singh, a Rajya Sabha MP, accused the BJP-RSS-VHP combine of trying to impose their ideologies in the national universities.

"India has two sets of ideologies and two sets of
parties. One protects the exploiters, industrialists, business houses and also exploits the poor. The second is that of Mahatma Gandhi, which is the Congress ideology that is for the poor, labour, SCs, STs, underprivileged. It's a fight between the exploiters and exploited. Rahul Gandhi is fighting for the ideology the Congress stands for. That is why he went to JNU," Singh said.

A group of lawyers supporting the BJP heckled even the Supreme Court-appointed panel and a BJP MLA was involved in the incidents at Patiala House Court, he said, adding, "No action has been taken against them."
The Congress general secretary wanted the people to judge who was patriot and who anti-national.
Union minister Naidu, speaking elsewhere in the city today, lashed out at the political parties "supporting" anti-national elements.
"How can these parties support elements who shouted slogans in favour of Afzal Guru and against India? Guru was hanged after a verdict by the Supreme Court. There were prolonged hearings in the case and several mercy petitions. How can the nation allow those who attacked the Parliament to go without any punishment?" Venkaiah said.