JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on charges of sedition after a protest on Afzal Guru's execution. (File photo)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met his match in Kanhaiya Kumar, said writer Nayantara Sahgal today as she praised the JNUSU president for his speech at JNU after his release from jail and his subsequent "rational" interviews to the media.
"Kanhaiya Kumar has electrified India with not only his speech in which much passion prevailed, but also in the interviews that he has given to the media where much rationality, much common sense, much quiet measured talk and a command of facts prevailed," she said.
"We owe him a huge debt of gratitude for taking us out of that molasses of depression which many of us had fallen into for a while. Mr Modi has met his match in Kanhaiya Kumar," she said at a book launch.