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New Delhi: Biju Janata Dal leader Tathagata Satpathy Wednesday blamed both the ruling BJP and Congress party for aggravating the JNU imbroglio. Participating in the debate on students’ unrest in JNU and Hyderabad University, the BJD MP lamented that both the parties had politicised the issues to gain political mileage.
Satpathy, who disapproved of the anti-India activities of some students, pointed out that the NDA government has failed to manage the crisis.
“Nobody is bothered about the real crisis because these people want to politicise the issue. The people sitting over there also want to politicise on the ‘‘us and them’’ issue and, so nobody is better, Madam. They are all on equal footing,” said Satpathy, adding “This problem in the JNU could have been handled better.”
He further added, “We lost sight of this critical anti-India movement because you lost sight of it, you forgot that while trying to propagate, trying to help a bunch of students with political ambitions, a bunch of non-students who entered the university, in trying to support their political ambitions, you lost track of the greater picture as to how, within a campus, an anti-India movement is being built up, a campus that is funded by the tax-payer of this country.”
Satpathy also criticized the NDA government for the present economic crisis in the country. He said, “Economic mishandling, callousness and the total ineptitude of this Government has disillusioned the youth and students of this country.”