JNU Students Cancel Protest On Kashmir

The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) on Monday canceled, at the last minute, a protest planned on the campus over recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir after objections to the presence of former JNUSU leader Shehla Rashid. The program was to protest the abolition of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and restrictions imposed in the state.

The local news agency reported that it learned from various councilors of the JNUSU that the protest program was called off after many members of the union informally objected to Rashid, now a political activist, participating in the protest as a speaker. Besides Rashid, the gathering was supposed to be addressed by some Left leaders and filmmakers. However, keeping in view “a certain tag that Rashid would have brought with herself”, the JNUSU decided to cancel the event.

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