A magazine associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological mentor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has said that the Jawaharlal Nehru University is home to anti-national groups, which aim to break India.
The magazine, Panchjanya, said that the students’ union of JNU, which tilts towards Naxal politics, openly celebrated the killing of 75paramilitary personnel in an ambush in Dantewada in 2010.
“In 2010 when Naxals in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, killed 75 paramilitary personnel, pro-Naxal students unions of the University celebrated openly and hailed the act. And all this happened under the nose of the JNU administration,” the article reportedly said.
Elsewhere in the magazine, it is alleged that JNU presents Indian culture in a distorted way, and advocates anti-national activities.
“JNU is one such institute where nationalism is considered an offence. Presenting Indian culture in a distorted way is common. The removal of Army from Kashmir is supported here. They advocate various other anti-national activities here,” the magazine says.
The author, a JNU alumni, further writes, “I often heard JNU professors discuss means and measures to undermine national unity and culture at events organized by anti-national organizations I then realized that JNU is home to a large chunk of anti-national groupings which have the singular aim of disintegrating India.”
The magazine insinuates that the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru promoted higher educational institutes as ‘factories of socialist ideology’.
“Jawahar Lal Nehru promoted higher educational and research institutions as factories of socialist ideology which could provide the intellectual input for his and later Indira Gandhi’s social and economic agenda,” the magazine says.
It also berates the University for depending on the state for resources, saying that this “is nothing but capitalism masquerading as socialism and even Maoism”. The University, the magazine alleges, harbours bitterness towards Hindus.
It adds that the JNU’s ideological moorings could be attributed to Nehru’s ‘proximity’ to the erstwhile Soviet Union.
“…when the Soviety block disintegrated, a new political thought emerged in institutions like JNU which started changing their political slogan from class struggle to caste struggle,” the article said.