Thread by @SaibBilaval

JNU VC appointments by the BJP have always had electoral motives for communal polarisation.

A #Thread on my piece:

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"A total victory in UP during the 2014 LS elections locked in the BJP’s victory in large part as the ruling party in 🇮🇳, + set the stage for BJP rule in the UP State Assembly afterwards. Behind these victories lay the Muzaffarnagar violence of 2013."

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"B/w the 2013 violence & 2017, when BJP formed the state govt, a series of factors played a role. The 9th Feb 2016 case, Najeeb case, multiple proctorial enquiries, media trials, demonization of Umar Khalid, AMU students & others."

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"BJP winning the state in 2022 with a communal campaign would set the tone for the party’s 2024 strategy, as well as opposition fortunes in 2024 – an experimental prologue just like 2014."

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"Delhi Police took years (from 2016) to file their sedition chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and others, timing it to just before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in which Kanhaiya Kumar was contesting – in order to polarize votes."

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"The attack on Jamia students protesting against the CAA in late 2019, the ABVP-led mass attack on JNU students in January 2020, and the Delhi pogrom that happened afterwards all set the tone for the Delhi assembly election."

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"The incarceration of anti-CAA activists such as Umar Khalid, Khalid Saifi, Ishrat Jahan, Sharjeel Imam, Meeran Haider – all Muslims – played a major role in the BJP’s campaigning in the Bihar State elections last year, and are already playing one in UP."

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"One can expect the new VC to demonise students, misuse the police, abuse her authority, engage in conspiracy theories, all while elevating and escalating RW-led violence on campus – just to stir things up in both the long and short run."

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"The academic standards probably do not matter – just some fodder to justify genocide calls by saffron groups in the most electorally coveted state in India. The BJP has no other fuel to run on."

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