Voyage Of The Red Islanders

Kanhaiya’s Begusarai foray has enthused other JNU student union ex-presidents.

- Salik Ahmad

KANHAIYA Kumar, who was catapulted to fame with his widely televised February 2016 speech at Delhi’s JNU on returning from Tihar jail, where the then JNU students’ union president had been held under charges of sedition, has since emerged as one of the most heard voices against the ruling BJP and PM Narendra Modi. As the CPI candidate for Begusarai in Bihar, the 32-year-old native of the constituency has now drawn into his campaign other former JNUSU presidents, who have forsaken ideological nuances and rallied around him.