The five students who were accused of raising anti national slogans, came back to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) last night.  

Out of the two names that came up prominently in the JNU issue, Umar Khalid was mainly focused now, while the other one- Kanhaiya Kumar, is currently in Tihar.

After the entry of the five students- Umar Khalid, Anant Prakash Narayan, Ashutosh Kumar, Rama Naga and Anirban Bhattacharya, into the university, a large mob raised the slogans in support of them, outside the administrative blocks.

Slogans of “Kanhaiya Kumar ko reha karo”, “sedition charges wapas karo”, “long live JNU” resonated in the campus.
 
Speaking after his comeback, Khalid said, “In the last seven years in campus I never felt I was a Muslim and in last 10 days I was made to feel, I was a Muslim. I am Umar Khalid and I’m not a terrorist”.

“The attack (on the university) is not because of the programme which was organised on February 9, but because the government needs an excuse to attack us”, Khalid adds.

Condemning the media trail, that branded him a terrorist, Khalid said, “The media, all this while, presented a lot of things about me. The media trial, this propaganda... I know what my family is going through.”

Khalid further refuted claims that he made 800 calls to ‘Gulf or Kashmir’, a few days before the programme was organized.

“We are glad that our friends are back,” said Shehla Rashid Shora, JNUSU vice-president.

Expressing happiness of her friends come back, JNUSU vice-president Shehla Rashid Shora said that, the activist students will surrender, if the police come to the campus.
 
“We want the mediapersons to record whatever event unfolds here and request them to not doctor the tapes,” said Rashid, referring to allegations that the tapes on the basis of which FIR in the matter was registered had been doctored.

Though police was not seen on the campus, students claimed they were “moving about in plain clothes”.

By Phani Ch