Probe Kanhaiya's role in JNU anti-India sloganeering: Athawale

Republican Party of India (A) president Ramdas Athawale today demanded a probe into JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar's role in the alleged anti-national slogans raised in the Delhi-based university campus.
Kumar, arrested on sedition charge on February 12 after the allegedly anti-national sloganeering incident came to light, was granted interim bail by the Delhi High Court on March 2.
"JNU enjoys a good reputation in higher education but the anti-national slogans raised in its campus was utterly wrong. Kanhaiya's role in the sloganeering should be probed thoroughly," the Rajya Sabha member told reporters here.
Kumar, a member of the All India Student Federation (AISF), the student wing of Communist Party of India, has denied any role in the alleged anti-India sloganeering, which took place during an event organised on the occasion of death anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.

Athwale, president of RPI(A), an ally of BJP, also said the government should roll back the proposed tax on withdrawal of Employees' Provident Fund (EPF).
The tax was proposed in the General Budget for 2016-17 presented in Parliament on February 29.

Athawale said 7.5 acres of land, located adjoining the BR Ambedkar Memorial Campus in Mhow and owned by Defence Ministry, should be transferred to the memorial built by Madhya Pradesh government.
Ambedkar was born in Mhow, an Army cantonment town located some 25km from here.
The RPI(A) chief said he is going to take up the matter with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.