Five JNU students wanted by the police for the controversial event held on February 9 within the campus have aforesaid they failed to come out publicly as a result of they feared a “witch hunt” against them.

Umar Khalid, Anant Prakash Narayan, Ashutosh Kumar, Rama Naga and Anirban Bhattacharya, who came to JNU on Sunday night after two weeks, said they wanted to be a part of the “struggle” against the hassle to brand the university anti-national.

“They are scared of us. Afraid of us, because we can think. To think is anti-national in today’s time. In fact, the easiest thing to do is to be an anti-national,” Khalid said.

He was relating the event where JNU students allegedly marked the day of remembrance of the hanging of Afzal Guru, who was convicted of associate attack on Parliament in 2001, by shouting slogans police envisage to be anti-national.

Kanhaiya Kumar, the pinnacle of the university’s students’ union, has been charged with sedition and is in jail for the event.

“We were in and around the campus. We did not leave Delhi. If they can beat Kanhaiya, the teachers and journalists inside the court room, imagine what all they can do. There is an atmosphere of fear and mob-lynching is happening,” Rama Naga, JNUSU general secretary and one of the five students charged with sedition.

Reporters, who were able to talk over with Khalid earlier within the day, were not allowed anyplace close to him after a few TV journalists tried to interview him. A minimum of 25 personal security personnel have formed a human chain round the place wherever the five students are sitting.

Hundreds of students camped all night close to the vice-chancellor’s workplace after Khalid and others resurfaced within the campus.

While Khalid and the four different students sat close to Administration Block or Ad Block, the location wherever students are protesting the alleged targeting of JNU and the University of Hyderabad’s Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula’s suicide, others camped near for an evening long vigil.

The government, meanwhile, has said it's able to discuss the JNU issue in Parliament with parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu saying that the various views ought to be debated.

“We want a detailed discussion on JNU. People should know what really happened there, the cause and the consequence of the act,” Naidu quoted.

Full Speech of Umar Khalid after appearing at JNU campus.

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