JNU student president Kanhaiya Kumar has raised yet another controversy. Kanhaiya has alleged that the Gujarat riots were staged and encouraged by the government, while the Sikh riots in 1984 were the result of mob frenzy. “There is a fundamental difference between a mob killing a common man and massacring people through state machinery. Therefore, the threat of communal fascism we are faced with today, there is an attack being launched on universities, because like Hitler, Modi ji doesn’t have support from intellectuals in India.

No intellectual is defending Modi regime,” were the words of Kanhaiya while speaking at a seminar in Delhi. Kanhaiya hasn’t stopped there. He went on to criticise the fear of common man against terrorism. He called it Islamophobia. “Today it’s an era of Islamophobia. Leave aside the words of terrorism and terrorist. The moment these words will come to your mind, imprints of face of a Muslim person will be there in your mind. This is Islamophobia,’’ was the definition of Kanhaiya.

Interesting Kanhaiya made his statements on Gujarat riots, on the lines of Rahul Gandhi. Rahul has previously said that `while the Gujarat government was involved in the 2002 riots, the Congress government had tried to stop the anti-Sikh riots.’ Rahul’s statement was severely criticised by the opposition as well as by the Sikh leaders. Now! can Kanhaiya get away with his words?