Shiv Sena says ‘BJP must not take political mileage from Kanhaiya Kumar sedition case’ 

Shiv Sena chief and editor of Saamana Uddhav Thackeray.

The Shiv Sena said that the BJP has no moral right to criticize student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been charged with sedition, especially after their team up with Mehbooba Mufti’s People’s Democratic Party in Jammu & Kashmir.

In an editorial in its mouthpiece, Saamana, on Wednesday, the Sena also demanded that the ruling BJP to refrain from taking any political mileages from the sedition case against the former president of JNU Students’ Union.

The Sena said the BJP committed a “sin” by teaming up with the People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti when Mufti considered the executed Parliament attack convict, Afzal Guru, a “martyr”. BJP pulled out this coalition last year.

It said: “The BJP committed the biggest sin of aligning with Mehbooba Mufti, who considers Afzal Guru a freedom fighter and a martyr. Now the BJP, for its own benefit, should not try and take political mileage out of the sedition case filed against Kanhaiya Kumar.”

The editorial further said: “Kanhaiya Kumar speaks well. Since he represents the harried and unemployed youth, he cannot give slogans hailing Afzal Guru or independence for Kashmir. Anyway, what moral right does the BJP have to condemn Kanhaiya Kumar?”

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