The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad or ABVP held protests against the events event in JNU. (PTI photo)
Congress today criticised a plan by some students of Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) to hold a protest over the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, saying no one should eulogise him as he was declared a terrorist by court and was hanged after a long-drawn judicial process.
"UPA government carried out Afzal Guru's sentence after due process for Dec 13, 2001 Parliament attack. No one should eulogise him," party communication department chief Randeep Surjewala said on Twitter.
Congress spokesperson RPN Singh said that a court had declared Guru a terrorist and the judgement was pronounced after giving him all the legal options available.
"He was hanged as a terrorist. We cannot have anarchy in our universities the hanging was after a long-drawn judicial process," the Congress spokesperson said.
JNU administration today ordered a "disciplinary" inquiry into an event on campus against the hanging of Guru despite cancellation of permission as the university was rocked by demonstrations by ABVP, a student body linked to the BJP.
Maintaining that the act by students amounted to "indiscipline" and any talk about the disintegration of the nation cannot be "national", the university authorities said that the matter will be investigated by a committee headed by the Chief Proctor of JNU.
The student organisers of the event had yesterday put up posters across the campus for a march to protest against the "judicial killing of Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhatt" and in solidarity with "struggle" of Kashmiri migrants.