Veteran CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta today said students in JNU had not raised any anti-India slogans and that false charges had been foisted on them.
"False charges were being foisted on the students of JNU and their leader, Kanhaiya Kumar. The students have not raised any anti-India slogans," he told reporters here on the sidelines of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) session.
Dasgupta, General Secretary of AITUC, said he supported the students.
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