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Anyone can express their opinion: Javadekar says on Deepika Padukone's JNU visit

| @indiablooms | Jan 08, 2020, at 04:32 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Reacting to Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone's decision to visit violence-hit Jawaharlal Nehru University, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday said anyone can go anywhere and express their opinion.

Asked about Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone reached JNU campus on Tuesday evening to support students protesting against JNU violence, Javedkar, who was addresing a press conference, said this is a democratic country and anyone can go anywhere and express their views. 

"Any common man can go anywhere to express an opinion," he said.

Deepika Padukone on Tuesday went to JNU campus and joined the protests against the attack which took place in the university couple of days ago. 

Condemning Sunday's violence in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), the Union Information and Broadcasting Minister said all the masked people who were engaged in violence in the campus will be 'unmasked'.

"All the masked people who engaged in violence in universities will be unmasked," he told reporters here.

Javedkar said police are probing the matter and all those who were involved in the violence will be exposed.

The Union Minister said violence in any part of the country should be condemned.

He said, 'There is no place of violence. Especially at educational institutions where students go for study, it should not happen.'

The violence in the university has triggered massive outrage in the country with demonstrations and protests taking place all over in support of the JNU students who were thrashed.

Aishe Ghosh, the JNUSU president , the JNUSU general secretary and 30 other students and faculty members were injured in the violence.

On Sunday evening, a mob of masked young people that reportedly had both men and women sneaked into the university campus and stormed the hostels and allegedly targeted students in a planned manner.

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