Bengaluru: Mar 12: Who is responsible for the death of brave soldiers like Lance Naik Hanmanthappa, asked Shehla Rashid Shora, vice-president, JNU Students Union, who was in the City on?Friday.
“Soldiers think they are dying for the country but they are actually dying for politicians. Border disputes are kept alive. Politicians and bureaucrats talk to each other in top hotels. All this is a farce,” Shehla, who was here on an invitation from the Journalists' Study Centre, Karnataka, said.
Shehla became the first Kashmiri to win the JNU elections that were held last year. An engineering graduate, she has also done a short course on “India-Women Leadership” from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She now studies at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU.
Even as JNU?president Kanhaiya Kumar stoked fresh controversy with his comments about the army raping women in Kashmir, Shehla reiterated that JNUSU supported soldiers.
The argument, she however said, was much more than that. “We are with the soldiers and any pro-soldier approach is anti-war. However, we need to rethink a number of issues such as the way the arms trade is being conducted and the defence budget is being reduced,” she said, implying that this endangered soldiers' lives. At the same time, JNUSU does not shy away from raising slogans against long-standing issues involving the army such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and custodial rapes, she added.
Shehla, who affiliates herself with the Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation, said she did have political aspirations, but for the moment there were “broader challenges”. “We contest elections and many of our members have been contesting elections from Bihar. At the moment, we are about saving the ideals of the Constitution. This government has been anti-dalit, anti-women and anti-poor. It is trying to wipe out any opposition as evident even in the FTII,” she said.
While everyone was busy hounding students from the JNU for their “anti-national” slogans, Akbar Chaudhry, another student leader highlighted the part played by JNU students in a number of recent movements. “During the Nirbhaya protests, we were at the forefront. At the Occupy UGC (University Grants Commission)' movement, we protested for 100 days. Even during the Rohith Vemula's incident, we were on a hunger strike,” he said.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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Just Ms. Shehla is connected with CPM, she cannot be criticized. Khaunhein Bangalore, you cannot issue diktats to this lady as she is free person.
If you have guts, you should have attended her press briefing and countered her, instead writing in this forum.
for what u have joined jnu do that first, u need not to worry about soldier, if u have that much guts join army and study their situation and protest, u dont know anything and your khaunhain(khanhaiya)
You are 100% correct. No doubt at all.
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