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cuts to education.
BJP took this opportunity to drum up nationalistic fervor surrounding “anti-national speech” being pro moted under the guise of academic freedom.
The events at JNU are part of a much broader assault on dissent by Narendra Modi, the BJP, and their asso ciated right-wing nationalist formations. The protests followed the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a PhD student at the University of Hyderabad. Vemula was a member of the Dalit community and an activist for the cause of rights for Dalits, a historically marginalized caste group in India. After participating in several campus protests, the ABVP wrote a letter to the university administration accusing him of “anti-national” and “caste-ist” activities. As a result, he was suspended from the university. He was found dead later, an ap parent suicide by hanging.
The BJP embraces the twin doctrines of extreme right-wing Hindu nationalism and neoliberal capi talism; it often uses the former to prop up support for the latter. It is no coincidence that the event that sparked the events at JNU was a protest in solidarity with the Kashmir independence movement. The BJP made its name stoking the fires of communal violence