Bhagat Singh Kanhaiya Kumar

Days after he drew flak for comparing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar with Bhagat Singh, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today said the student leader has never said he is not proud to be an Indian.

How does Kanhaiya match up in comparison? His sole achievement has been to go to jail for a few days. Thus, the comparison is odious, flies in the face of historical facts, and is also an outright insult to the bravery and martyrdom of Bhagat Singh.

Congress today virtually disapproved of party leader Shashi Tharoor comparing JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar, facing sedition charges, with Bhagat Singh.

Unless the voices of those calling for a humane and broad-minded view of the Indian nation are heard, we are in danger of being reduced to the very thing our forefathers rejected in 1947 - a Hindu Pakistan.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor clarified today that he had not intended to equate Kanhaiya Kumar, the student recently arrested on charges of sedition at Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU, with freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury today said he is in "great company" of freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh and Mahatma Gandhi after a sedition case was filed against him.

Days after he drew flak for comparing Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar with Bhagat Singh, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor today said the student leader has never said he is not proud to be an Indian.

How does Kanhaiya match up in comparison? His sole achievement has been to go to jail for a few days. Thus, the comparison is odious, flies in the face of historical facts, and is also an outright insult to the bravery and martyrdom of Bhagat Singh.

Congress today virtually disapproved of party leader Shashi Tharoor comparing JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar, facing sedition charges, with Bhagat Singh.

Unless the voices of those calling for a humane and broad-minded view of the Indian nation are heard, we are in danger of being reduced to the very thing our forefathers rejected in 1947 - a Hindu Pakistan.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor clarified today that he had not intended to equate Kanhaiya Kumar, the student recently arrested on charges of sedition at Jawaharlal Nehru University or JNU, with freedom fighter Bhagat Singh.

CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury today said he is in "great company" of freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh and Mahatma Gandhi after a sedition case was filed against him.