New Delhi: JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, on Friday said that Rohit Vemula, a Dalit research student of Hyderabad Central University who ended life, is his idol and not Afzal Guru.
While thanking everyone who supported the movement initiated by him, Kumar in a press meet said that as a JNUSU president, he only considers Afzal Guru a citizen of India who was prosecuted by the Indian law, but his icon is Rohith Vemula.

“I want to tell everyone and those who are taxpayers of this country that JNU students are patriotic and not anti-nationals. It is an attempt to defame our university.
JNU has never and will never support anything unconstitutional. Video can be doctored, but not Constitution. Sacrifice of farmers, jawans and Rohith Vemula will not go wasted. Whenever a revolution started, government tried to suppress it. The sedition law was made by British to suppress us,” he said.

Speaking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Kumar said that they do not have anything personal against him. “We only have ideological differences,” he said.

Kanhaiya who was booked over sedition charges was released on Thursday and on his release Kumar has announced that he will campaign for upcoming Kerala and West Bengal Assembly polls for the Left Front.

West Bengal will see balloting on seven dates in a six-phase election: April 4, 11, 17, 21, 25 and 30 and May 5 while Kerala will see election on  May 16.