'Tukde Tukde Gang Trying To Create Trouble': Union Minister On BBC Docuseries Row At JNU

Muraleedharan said, tukde tukde gang is trying to create trouble. I hope Police will take action against the miscreants. JNU had some elements earlier also, who were trying to break the country.

New Delhi: Amid the row over the screening of a BBC Documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Rajya Sabha MP and Union Minister MEA V. Muraleedharan on Wednesday said, the tukde tukde gang, they are trying to create trouble. I hope Police will take action against the miscreants. JNU had some elements earlier also, who were trying to break the country, he added.

“JNU had some elements earlier also, who were trying to break the country- The tukde tukde gang, they are trying to create trouble. I hope Police will take action against the miscreants,” Muraleedharan said as quoted by the news agency ANI. He further stated that nobody should be allowed to trample upon the sovereignty of India.

“Nobody should be allowed to trample upon the sovereignty of India. It is unfortunate that a party which claims to have been part of the freedom struggle does not care about the sovereignty and security of the country,” Muraleedharan said.

Earlier on Tuesday night, several JNU students took out a protest march from their campus to the Vasant Kunj Police Station and lodged a complaint claiming stones were pelted at them while they were watching a screening of the documentary on PM Modi on their mobile phones and laptops.

The protest was called off after the police assured them that they will look into the matter. "We filed a complaint, and the police assured us they will be immediately looking into the incident. We gave the name and details of all the persons involved. As of now, we're calling off the protest. We will also file a complaint at the JNU Proctor office," JNU Students Union (JNSU) President Aishe Ghosh said as quoted by ANI.

Ghosh alleged that the ABVP pelted stones at them during the screening. "ABVP pelted stones, but no step by the administration yet. We almost completed the film's screening. Our priority is that electricity should be restored. We will file an FIR," Ghosh told ANI late on Tuesday night.

"Do these people hurling allegations have any evidence that we pelted stones? We did not pelt stones at all," a JNU student from the ABVP Gaurav Kumar told ANI.

On January 23, the JNU had in an advisory said the students' union had not taken its permission for the event and it should be cancelled, warning of strict disciplinary action. However, the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) in a statement had said there is no intention to create any form of disharmony through the screening of the documentary or movie.