Kiren Rijiju said thatstudents should not carry any campaign against the nation.
A day after he called the victory of Left candidates in Jawaharlal Nehru University as victory of 'discarded ideology', the Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said today that students should practice their ideologies, but there should not be any campaign against the nation.
"Be it JNU or DU...they have their own ideology. There is nothing wrong in it. I just said that that there should not be campaign against the nation. Tell your ideology to the people...there is nothing wrong in that but one should not say anything against the nation," Mr Rijiju told media in New Delhi.
Mr Rijiju said that everyone has the right to criticize the government, but should refrain from speaking against the nation.
Speaking about sedition charges, Mr Rijiju said, "No one will like it if someone speaks against the nation. The Central Government does not put charges of sedition...police does that. The maximum number of sedition charges is found in Bihar, Karnataka and Kerala. Where are sedition charges in the BJP-ruled states."
Mr Rijiju's comments came while reacting to student union poll results of the two premier universities - Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University - in the national capital where results were declared on Saturday.
In Delhi University, the posts of president, vice president and secretary were won by ABVP candidates and the fourth post of Joint Secretary was won by the candidate of NSUI, the student wing of Congress Party. All four key posts in JNU were won by Left Unity candidates.