BJP chief Amit Shah today attacked Congress over the JNU row, saying it should be “ashamed” of Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the campus and questioned whether “anti-national slogans” can be called freedom of speech.
Addressing a meeting of Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha, BJP’s youth wing, he said the JNU row was about the party’s core issue of nationalism and invoked its Ram Janambhumi campaign to buttress his point besides its role in Goa and Hyderabad liberation movement.
“A strange atmosphere has been created. Anti-national slogans are being projected as freedom of expression…
Congress should be ashamed that its vice president goes to the campus and says these (slogans) should be heard as there is freedom of expression.
“If these slogans are freedom of expression, then what is treason?” he said seeking Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s views on whether she agrees with her son on this.
