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LS: Congress tries to corner NDA over JNU, Rohit

| | Feb 24, 2016, at 09:25 pm
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IBNS): Debating over the JNU row in the Lok Sabha and the suicide of Rohit Vermula, Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday tried to corner the government and said blacklisting the premiere university of 8,000 students for the actions of 8 students is 'unacceptable'.

"It is not acceptable that a university of 8,000 students blacklisted for the actions of 8 students," Scindia said.

Attacking the Centre, he said: "Union government and ministers are trying to encroach into varsities."

He said: "The government has the mindset of damaging people who hold different mindset from them."

 Scindia raising the issue of Rohit Vermula said: "The thinking of this government is...My way or the highway."

 
Both the Houses of the Parliament are debating the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) episode and Rohit Vermula's death in Hyderabad University to corner the Narendra Modi government.

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