Constitution Not A Video That Can Be Doctored: Kanhaiya Kumar

New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University student union president Kanhaiya Kumar is addressing the media after being released from jail on bail yesterday. He had been arrested on charges of sedition over a controversial event on the campus where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised. Here are highlights from his address:
 

• I want to assure the people of the country that your tax money is not used to fund any anti-national activities in JNU.
• There are some dark clouds but I want to tell them that there will be rainfall after the dark clouds.
• These dark clouds can't hide the red sun and the blue skies.
• The rainfall will push away the dark clouds.
• People who play with our Constitution, we have to stand up against their evil designs.
• The sacrifice of our jawans and our farmers committing suicide and Rohith Vemula - will not go waste.
• You are trying to divide the country.
• Farmers, sons of farmers and daughters of farmers.
• There is difference between sedition and treason.
• It was made by the English to make people fear them.
• JNU has full faith in Constitution and judiciary.
• Let courts decide if it was sedition or not.
• We will not say anything.
• We have faith on Constitution and judiciary.
• Despite all their efforts they have not been able to fabricate the truth.
• Constitution is not a video that can be doctored.
• Truth will win and dark clouds will go away.
• There should be more JNUs from the subsidy money.
• So that other friends who come from poor backgrounds can do their PhD and can fight for the country.
• Your money is being spent well.
• Problem is that the government of the country, has become the government of one party. Not one party but one office.
• We have to make them realise that they are here for the country.
• Not only to an office but they are answerable to Parliament.
• I have no personal differences only ideological differences.
• We are children like any other, we are from this country, we are not terrorists.
• Soldier fighting for the country, or our farmers dying, or students fighting for their rights - this is our crime.
• But if government considers this as a crime, we will do it again and again, we have no regrets.
• Our students have been beaten up by mobs.
• Fabricated videos to malign the campus.
• Some people have appointed condom counting officers.
• JNU is a real voice of the country.
• From North East to Gujarat, Kashmir to Kanyakumari.
• Not just Indians, but students from 145 countries are here, they contribute.
• Of 4,500 bureaucrats - 2500 are from JNU.
• Sedition is a black law, should not be used on students.
• We understand the limit of freedom of speech.
• Freedom not from country but freedom within country
• We want to make the country stronger, more united.
• In globalisation, it is tough to strengthen nationalism.
• It is a big challenge, we understand it.
• The conspiracy to deflect attention from the real problems of the country.
• We need to understand that.