New Delhi:
The Home Ministry has said Home minister Rajnath Singh's comment that Lashkar-e Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed has supported the protests at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, was based on inputs from "different agencies". The statement came after the minister's remark triggered a huge political controversy and Left leaders suggested that he prove his claims.
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"The statement of the Home Minister is based on the inputs available from different agencies," a Home Ministry spokesperson said.
"What happened at JNU has been fully supported by Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed. I appeal all political parties that whenever such situations arise where anti-India slogans are raised, the entire nation must speak in one voice," Rajnath Singh had said.
Soon after, senior CPM leader Sitaram Yechury said the Home Minister shouldn't "manufacture evidence and go by what's on the ground". CPI leader D Raja called for a "credible probe".
The ministry clarification also follows reports that Mr Singh and the police were misled by a tweet purportedly from a twitter handle in the name of Hafiz Saeed. On Sunday, Pakistani newspaper The Dawn reported the Hafiz Saeed Twitter handle was fake.
Lashkar chief Hafiz Saeed's Twitter handle was blocked a long time ago.
The local police have sought a transfer of the case to the Special Branch, saying it is a matter of sedition and terror links could emerge. The Delhi Government has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the case.
Following the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar on Friday and the sedition charges against him, the matter has been politicized, with the Congress, the Left Front and Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party attacking the Central government for "encroaching on the autonomy of universities".
The ABVP, a student's body linked to the BJP, has denied that its members were shouting anti-India slogans at the programme and the video released on social media that's going viral is a fake. The ABVP said it will complain to the Cybercrime Cell about the video.
The Congress has alleged that the students were involved in the attack on its senior leader Anand Sharma, who had accompanied party vice president Rahul Gandhi to the campus yesterday. A First Information Report has been filed.
Kanhaiya Kumar's parents, who live in Bihar, have said their son was being victimised for his opposition to Hindutva politics.
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