Jawaharlal Nehru University is a public research university located in Delhi,India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru,India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties and research emphasis on social sciences and applied sciences.
Tihar Prisons,also called Tihar Jail and Tihar Ashram,is a prison complex in India and one of the largest complex of prisons in India. It has 9 functional prisons spread over more than 400 acres. Run by Department of Delhi Prisons,the prison contains nine central prisons,and is one of the three prison complexes in Delhi. The other two prison complexes are at Rohini and Mandoli with one and six central prisons respectively. Tihar prison complex is located in Janakpuri,approximately 3 km from Tihar village in West Delhi.
Sitaram Yechury is an Indian Marxist politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist),and a member of the Politburo of the CPI(M) since 1992. Previously,he was a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from West Bengal from 2005 to 2017.
Rajnath Singh is an Indian politician and lecturer who is serving as the 29th Defence Minister of India since 2019. He is currently the deputy Leader of the House,Lok Sabha since 2014. He was the 8th President of Bharatiya Janata Party from 2005 to 2009 and again from 2013 to 2014. He is a veteran leader of the BJP who started his career as a RSS Swayamsevak.
Zee News is an Indian Hindi-language right-wing news channel owned by Subhash Chandra's Essel Group. It launched on 27 August 1999 and is the flagship channel of the Zee Media Corporation.
Nivedita Menon is a writer and a professor of political thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University,Delhi. She previously taught at Lady Shri Ram College and the Department of Political Science at Delhi University.
Om Prakash Sharma is an Indian politician and is an MLA from Vishwas Nagar in Delhi.
Vasudev Devnani is an Indian politician from Rajasthan serving as the speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. He is also an MLA from Ajmer North. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Vasudev Devnani is the first Sindhi to become speaker in Rajasthan assembly.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union or JNUSU is a students' union at Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi.
Aam Aadmi Sena is a political wing of Aam Aadmi Sangathan and dissident faction of former workers of Aam Aadmi Party,an Indian political party commonly referred as AAP.
On 9 February 2016,some students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) held a protest on their campus against the capital punishment meted out to the 2001 Indian Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru,and Kashmiri separatist Maqbool Bhat. The organizers of the event were former members of the Democratic Students' Union (DSU). The event was held despite the university administration withdrawing permission for the event shortly before it was due to begin,due to protests by members of the student union of ABVP. The event saw clashes between various student groups. A video was circulated by Indian news channel Zee news in which a small group of individuals,whom a later University investigation described as outsiders to the university wearing masks,shouted "anti-India" slogans.
Shehla Rashid Shora is an Indian single community human rights activist who has pursued her Ph.D. at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She was vice-president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) in 2015–16 and was a member of the All India Students Association (AISA). She rose to prominence whilst leading the student agitation calling for the release for Kanhaiya Kumar,Umar Khalid and others who were arrested on charges of sedition in February 2016 for participating and organizing sloganeering in JNU.
Umar Khalid is an Indian student activist,a former research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University,former leader of Democratic Students' Union (DSU) in JNU. He was allegedly involved in the Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition row and is an accused under the UAPA law. Khalid is also associated with United Against Hate,a campaign founded along with Nadeem Khan in July 2017 in response to the series of lynchings.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (Bill) protests,also known as the CAA Protest,CAB Protest or CAA and NRC protests,occurred after the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was enacted by the Government of India on 12 December 2019. The move sparked a widespread national and overseas ongoing protests against the act and its associated proposals of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The protests first began in Assam and spread swiftly in other states such as Delhi,Meghalaya,Arunachal Pradesh,and Tripura on 4 December 2019. Protests broke out rapidly across the country,although the concerns of the protesters vary.
On 5 January 2020,more than 50 masked people armed with rods,sticks and acid attacked the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University,Delhi,and injured more than 39 students and teachers. Many students received serious injuries. Professors who tried to intervene and protect the students,as well as ambulances carrying injured individuals,were attacked. Eyewitnesses stated that police within the campus did not intervene to stop the mob. After attacking residents of the university campus for three hours,the mob escaped;none of its members was arrested or detained. All 36 students who were injured and admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences,New Delhi (AIIMS) were discharged within 24 hours.
Tukde Tukde Gang is a pejorative political catchphrase used in Indian political media for groups allegedly supporting sedition and secessionism. Whereas the words tukde-tukde refer to "breaking or cutting something into small fragments",the phrase "tukde tukde gang" can be translated as "a gang that wants to divide the country". The phrase is also used in contemporary Indian politics to refer to groups that believe India is better if broken into smaller nation states.
Sharjeel Imam is an Indian student activist from Kako village of Jehanabad,Bihar. He had completed his B.Tech. and M.Tech. from IIT-Bombay and joined Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2013 for completing his master's degree in Modern History and in 2015 he started Ph.D. from the same university. He is known for his allegedly inflammatory speeches made during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests which led to his arrest under sedition.
Aparajitha Raja is an Indian politician who was the national leader of the All India Students’Federation (AISF). She is currently serving as a National Council member of All India Youth Federation. She is the daughter of D. Raja,the Communist Party of India’s (CPI) General Secretary,and Annie Raja,the General Secretary of the National Federation of Indian Women.
Aishe Ghosh is an Indian politician and student activist. She is a former President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union and is a Member of the Students' Federation of India. She was also the CPI(M) candidate from Jamuria constituency for 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election and lost to Hareram Singh.
From Bihar To Tihar:My Political Journey is a memoir and political book written by then president of Jawaharlal Nehru University,former Communist Party of India candidate from Begusarai Lok Sabha and presently a politician of Indian National Congress,Kanhaiya Kumar. It was published on 3 October 2016.
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