JNU Row: Fresh posters calling India ‘Prison of Different Nationalities’ seen in campus

This comes on the day that arrested students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya's three day police remand ends. The posters were reportedly put up in the campus last night.

Feb 27: Amid the ongoing row on alleged anti-national activities in the campus of the prestigious Jawahar Lal Nehru University, fresh posters attacking Indian government have cropped up in the campus, reports said on Saturday. The posters reportedly call India a ‘Prison of different nationalities’ and were put up in the campus last night. This comes on the day that arrested JNUSU members Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya’s three day police remand ends.

A poster war had also started in Punjab’s Amritsar with both the BJP and Congress attacking each other’s stand on the issue of JNU. A BJP poster attacking Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was put up, that said that Gandhi was siding with terrorists by supporting ‘anti-national’ activities in India. Congress retaliated by putting up posters that questioned Narendra Modi of being hypocritical by forming alliance with Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party, which considers Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru as a martyr. This was followed by a protest by both the parties against each other outside JNU in New Delhi. Also Read:  Around 22 people at JNU flashpoint event identified: Police

Both parties opposed each other’s stand on the issue and raised slogans attacking the other. Similar posters calling for ‘Azadi’ for Kashmir, Manipur and Nagaland, were put up in Jadavpur University earlier this month, kicking up a controversy. Student activists from the right wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) later tore the posters and vandalised the university complex. The posters had been signed by a group called ‘Radical’, which, the University claimed was a ‘fringe’ group, which was responsible for raising pro-Afzal Guru slogans at a rally earlier.