By TCN News,
New Delhi: The JNU campus was enlighten on Sunday night when Umar Khalid, an accused of raising anti-national slogans, returned to the university along with four other absconding students.
A large number of students had gathered outside the administrative block and shouted slogans in support for Umar Khalid and others. In his 14 minutes speech Khalid criticized media and government for brandishing him as a terrorist.
“In the last seven years in campus I never felt I was a Muslim and in last 10 days I was made to feel, I was a Muslim. I am Umar Khalid and I’m not a terrorist,” said Khalid, who fled the campus after the incident.
Khalid told the gathering: “No, I did not make any calls to Kashmir or the Gulf (as was reported by a section of the media)…. I know what my parents and sisters went through. I saw the filthy threats on my sister’s Facebook wall. They would say ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’. It reminded me of how nuns were raped in Kandhamal by goons who said ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’.”
Talking on the allegations of raising anti-national slogans, he said, “Our slogan was for the right to self-determination. We don’t agree with, nor did we raise, the other slogans that have been reported.”
“At the end, I want to say that I don’t believe in any nationalism. I dream of a world without nations or boundaries. It is up to us to create that world,” he concluded.