From celebrating jawans' killings to demanding beef - Confidential report reveals what happened in JNU in the past

Umar Khalid, a DSU member

New Delhi: The national capital's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University is the centre of controversy these days over anti-national slogans being raised at an event on February 9.

Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU students' union president and the leftist All India Students Federation (AISF) leader was arrested on February 12 on after anti-India slogans were raised at an event held at the JNU campus on February 9 to commemorate the execution of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

According to a confidential report, this is not the first time that when JNU is in controversy over such event. 

There are two hidden students groups - 1) Democratic Students Union (DSU) and 2) Democratic Students Federation (DSF) - who have been reactive as sometimes they prepare nude and objectionable posters of deities on their computer and affix it on wall to hurt the religious feelings of the society, a confidential report in Firstpost said.

The activities of DSU and DSF in the past were:- 

- They mourned the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru

- They celebrated the killing of CRPF jawans in Chattisgarh's Dantewada

- They asked for beef in hostel mess

- They worshipped 'Mahisasur' in place of Goddess Durga during 'Navratra' festival

- They invited Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani for meeting, however, JNU authority imposed ban on it