The Jawaharlal Nehru College (JNU) on Tuesday stated college students concerned in a protest, the place controversial slogans have been allegedly raised towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union dwelling minister Amit Shah, will face suspension, expulsion or debarment, even because it requested Delhi Police to file an FIR on the difficulty.
On Monday night time, a gathering was organised by the JNU Pupil Union (JNUSU) titled “Night time of Resistance with Guerrilla Dhaba” to mark the sixth anniversary of violence that broke out contained in the campus on January 5, 2020. Round 35students participated within the protest at JNU’s Sabarmati Hostel premise, atleast three college students instructed PR, throughout which the controversial slogans have been allegedly raised towards Modi, Shah, and industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani.
Unverified movies of the protest exhibiting college students purportedly shouting the slogans surfaced on social media on Tuesday.
“The Jawaharlal Nehru College administration has vowed the strictest motion towards college students discovered elevating objectionable slogans towards Hon’ble Prime Minister and Hon’ble dwelling minister. An FIR has already been lodged within the matter,” the college stated on X.
“Universities are centres for innovation and new concepts, they usually can’t be permitted to be transformed into laboratories of hate. Freedom of speech and expression is a basic proper.
However any type of violence, illegal conduct or anti-national exercise won’t be tolerated below any circumstances. College students concerned on this incident can even face disciplinary measures together with fast suspension, expulsion and everlasting debarment from the college,” it added.
Delhi Police stated no FIR was lodged on the time of going to print. “We acquired the grievance letters, however no FIR has been registered but,” deputy commissioner of police (south west) Amit Goel stated.
The JNUSU stated the gathering was organised to peacefully spotlight the 2020 assault, when armed assailants attacked a number of college students and lecturers on the Sabarmati Hostel at night time, leaving atleast 25 injured.
“JNUSU had organised a vigil on 5 January 2026 to maintain the reminiscence of 2020 assaults on JNU alive and to focus on the sample of injustice at Sabarmati Hostel, which was the prime goal of the 2020 assaults,” stated JNUSU. “The JNUSU stands for peaceable and democratic modes of agitation. The vigil on 5 January 2026 was towards the violence the college group had suffered,” it added.
Amongst these within the protest have been JNUSU chief Aditi Mishra, Gopika Babu, Sunil Yadav, Danish Ali, Saad Azmi, Kanishk and Mehboob Ilahi, as per JNU’s safety division grievance to SHO Vasant Kunj (North).
In an announcement earlier within the day, the college administration stated the complaints have been filed on the premise of movies that surfaced on social media the place college students have been heard shouting anti-Modi and anti-Shah statements.
“JNU administration has taken very critical cognizance of the movies circulated of the protest organised at Sabarmati premises yesterday whereby a gaggle of scholars from JNUSU raised extremely objectionable, provocative and inflammatory slogans. The competent authority has taken critical word of the incident and the safety department has been requested to cooperate with the police within the investigation,” the assertion stated. Such slogans are utterly inconsistent with democratic dissent and violate the JNU Code of Conduct, the assertion added.
Criticising the gathering as “anti-national”, the JNU unit of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the scholar wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, demanded strict motion towards the scholars.
“We strongly condemn this anti-national act, contemplating it not as a pupil motion, however as a deliberate anarchy. We demand that the college administration establish the responsible parts on this incident and take fast and strict motion towards them to maintain the campus free from anti-national actions,” it stated in an announcement.
A PhD pupil who was current within the gathering stated the annual gathering was referred to as to sentence the alleged inaction by authorities towards these concerned within the 2020 violence.
“Yearly since then we organise such gatherings on January 5 and we chant slogans, and sing songs. These slogans have been raised within the backdrop of the 2020 assault on the campus and inaction of these in authority relating to the identical. It was extra to focus on the ideological divide with the RSS than an assault on any constitutional publish,” stated the scholar.
An affiliation of Hindu teams, Hindu Sena, additionally submitted a grievance to the DCP (south west) District to file an FIR towards the scholars. “I’m penning this to deliver to your fast consideration a grave incident of sedition and legal intimidation that occurred on the campus of JNU on the night time of January 5, 2026,” the group stated within the grievance.
Delhi dwelling minister Ashish Sood stated private feedback made towards Modi and Shah have been unacceptable. AAP nationwide media in-charge Anurag Dhanda stated if the Bharatiya Janata Occasion authorities had taken motion towards those that raised anti-national statements years in the past, the incident wouldn’t have occurred.
