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'Back-stabber' : Kanhaiya Kumar slammed for disowning Umar Khalid in viral video
Several have called out Kanhaiya Kumar for showing "true colours" after joining active politics.
THE QUINT
Published: 21 Dec 2021, 4:52 PM IST
INDIA
3 min read
Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid
A video of Congress leader and former student activist Kanhaiya Kumar has gone viral on social media in which he can be seen dodging questions about incarcerated activists Umar Khalid and Meeran Haider.
While speaking to the media in Bihar's Sivan, a reporter asked him a question about the two activists, to which Kumar can first be heard saying, "Does Meeran Haider belong to my party?"
When the reporter told Kumar that he is with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Kumar said: "Then why are you asking me about him?"
The reporter then told Kumar that Umar Khalid has been his friend and acquaintance in the past, to which Kumar said, "Who told you so?"
Jamia student Meeran Haider was arrested and charged with sedition in December 2019 amid the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). He was also the head of the Delhi youth wing of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
Several people and activists took to Twitter to call out Kumar over his "forgotten ties" with Umar Khalid.
Reacting to the video, activists and founder of United Against Hate, Nadeem Khan said that "all those incarcerated activists fighting to uphold the democracy and the Constitution are our friends."
Activist and former student of Jamia University, Safoora Zargar also took to Twitter to slam Kumar.
Several others shared old pictures of Khalid and Kumar together.
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Jamahir's comment : I am terribly disappointed with Kanhaiya. First he, being a well-spoken, knowledgeable and anti-Capitalism / anti-Right, person, raised high hopes among the progressives by being in a high position in the Communist Party of India but he misbehaved there. Then he left that party and joined the Indian National Congress and raised hopes of turning that party towards the Left but now he has betrayed Umar Khalid, the now-in-jail-for-one-year comrade from his JNU university days.
@Goenitz
Several have called out Kanhaiya Kumar for showing "true colours" after joining active politics.
THE QUINT
Published: 21 Dec 2021, 4:52 PM IST
INDIA
3 min read
Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid
A video of Congress leader and former student activist Kanhaiya Kumar has gone viral on social media in which he can be seen dodging questions about incarcerated activists Umar Khalid and Meeran Haider.
While speaking to the media in Bihar's Sivan, a reporter asked him a question about the two activists, to which Kumar can first be heard saying, "Does Meeran Haider belong to my party?"
When the reporter told Kumar that he is with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Kumar said: "Then why are you asking me about him?"
The reporter then told Kumar that Umar Khalid has been his friend and acquaintance in the past, to which Kumar said, "Who told you so?"
Both were also slapped with sedition in a case in which the Delhi Police claimed that the two were a part of an event to commemorate convicted terrorist Afzal Guru where 'anti-India' slogans were allegedly raised.
Jamia student Meeran Haider was arrested and charged with sedition in December 2019 amid the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). He was also the head of the Delhi youth wing of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
Several people and activists took to Twitter to call out Kumar over his "forgotten ties" with Umar Khalid.
Reacting to the video, activists and founder of United Against Hate, Nadeem Khan said that "all those incarcerated activists fighting to uphold the democracy and the Constitution are our friends."
Activist and former student of Jamia University, Safoora Zargar also took to Twitter to slam Kumar.
Several others shared old pictures of Khalid and Kumar together.
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Jamahir's comment : I am terribly disappointed with Kanhaiya. First he, being a well-spoken, knowledgeable and anti-Capitalism / anti-Right, person, raised high hopes among the progressives by being in a high position in the Communist Party of India but he misbehaved there. Then he left that party and joined the Indian National Congress and raised hopes of turning that party towards the Left but now he has betrayed Umar Khalid, the now-in-jail-for-one-year comrade from his JNU university days.
@Goenitz
Kanhaiya was jailed by Delhi police in 2016 for participating in a protest in JNU along with Umar and others, but actually he was jailed just for being a leftist. They were comrades. When Kanhaiya was produced in Delhi High Court that year he was attacked by some lawyers who were of a Hindutvadi bent. Umar was in fact almost assassinated by a shooter in JNU in 2018 but the shooter's gun jammed and he ran away. Has Kanhaiya forgotten such things ?
