A poster calling for freedom for Kashmir
had the India's Jawaharlal Nehru University administration in a tizzy on Thursday.
The solitary poster was noticed by some students on the wall of the School of Social Sciences' new block, after which they alerted the varsity administration.
"Freedom for Kashmir! Free Palestine! Right to self-determination long live," the poster, which appeared in the name of ultra-Left group DSU, stated. By evening, the administration had asked the university security to remove the poster.
DSU, or Democratic Students Union, is the same group whose former members Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhat tacharya and others organised a protest rally on February 9, 2016, against the hanging of allegedly Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Kashmiri separatist Maqbool Bhat.Alleged anti-national slogans raised during the rally had led to police slapping sedition cases on these students.
A student affiliated to a Left group, but not from DSU, said: "The poster has been there for three-four days. But this is nothing new as such posters from DSU keep emerging at the start of sessions."
Khalid and Bhattacharya, along with former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar (from CPI-affiliated AISF) are out on bail after arrest on charges of sedition for the February 9 event.
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