Want freedom within India, not from India, says Kanhaiya Kumar

NEW DELHI: Returning to JNU campus on his release from jail three weeks after his arrest, the university’s students’ union leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday night said they are seeking freedom within the country and not from India, as he hurled barbs at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Addressing students at the campus, 29-year-old Kumar, who has been slapped with sedition charge for allegedly raising anti-national slogans, said he had many differences with the prime minister but he agreed with his tweet “Satyameva Jayate”. “I have many differences with the PM but I agree with his tweet Satyameva Jayate because these words are in our Constitution,” he said. “We are not seeking ‘azaadi’(freedom) from India. We want ‘azaadi’ within India,” he said.

Thanking all who stood by him while he was in Tihar jail here, Kumar said he believed in the Constitution and Judiciary of India. Kumar said he had no ill feelings towards anyone and won’t indulge in “witch hunting” towards RSS’s student outfit ABVP.