Kanhaiya Kumar is Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate from Begusarai in Bihar. He is a former president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union. He received his doctorate from JNU in 2019. Kanhaiya Kumar was born in Bihat village in Bihar. The village is in Begusarai District. He graduated in Geography from College of Commerce in Patna. He topped entrance examination of Jawaharlal Nehru University and pursued his Ph.D. in African Studies. In 2016, Kanhaiya Kumar got embroiled in a controversy after which he was arrested in connection with a program against hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru. He was also accused of being involved in 'anti-India' sloganeering. Kanhaiya Kumar has denied the charges. Information in the pubic domain includes Kanhaiya Kumar's statements in which he says that he always says that "Kashmir is an integral part of India". In Begusarai, Kanhaiya Kumar is facing-off with BJP MP Giriraj Singh in Lok Sabha Election 2019.
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New Delhi: As the focus has shifted from JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar to Umar Khalid, a JNU student leader, who is accused of leading the group that raised anti-India slogans on the evenging of February
New Delhi: Delhi High Court will not hear bail plea of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar today. Kanhaiya has been arrested by Delhi Police on sedition charges.According to Registrar General of Delhi HC, Kanhaiya's bail plea
New Delhi: JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar's mother Meena Devi today slammed the attack on her son in the Patiala House Court premises and questioned who will be responsible if he dies in custody."I
New Delhi: Call records of two mobile numbers belonging to former JNU student leader Umar Khalid, believed to be the main organiser of the February 9 event at the varsity's campus where alleged anti-India slogans
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New Delhi: In an apparent bid to evoke strong nationalistic sentiments amidst alleged anti-India slogans being raised during protests at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the Jadavpur University in West Bengal, the central government
New Delhi: Arrested on charges of sedition, JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar today moved the top court seeking bail. The bail plea of Kumar, in judicial custody till March 2, will be heard tomorrow, the Supreme
New Delhi: The arrest of JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar over sedition charges has snowballed into a major political controversy. He has been charged under Section 124A of Indian Penal code.Sedition as defined under IPC Section
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who was yesterday sent to judicial custody till March 2, has been kept at the jail number 3 of Tihar Jail, the same cell where
New Delhi: The Bar Council of India has decided to crack the whip on the group of unruly lawyers who indulged in violence at the Patiala House Court complex here, saying the licences of those
New Delhi: Support is pouring in for JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is facing charges of sedition for his alleged involvement in anti-national sloganeering during a controversial event for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, from
New Delhi: JNU teachers have questioned the "scope" of the university probe panel inquiring into the raising of alleged anti-national slogans on campus and demanded that more members should be included into the high-level committee.The
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who has criticised the BJP leadership in recent times, says he is with the central government on the JNU row. At the same time, Sinha also said in
New Delhi: A day after JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar was 'manhandled' while being produced in at Patiala House court, the Supreme Court said that it is 'keeping an eye on law & order in Patiala
New Delhi: In what may turn out to be a huge embarrasment for Delhi Police,the sedition charges slapped against JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar will have to be dropped if no concrete evidence proving his involvement
New Delhi: Under fire over a repeated spate of violence in the Patiala House court complex, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi today denied that JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar was "beaten up" and defended the
New Delhi: Slapped with the charge of sedition, JNUSU leader Kanhaiya Kumar today said that he condemned the incident at the JNU campus on February 9, terming the entire episode as unfortunate. Kanhaiya also told
New Delhi: Patiala House Court today sent JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar to 14-day judicial custody. It means that Kanhaiya will stay in jail till March 2.Earlier, the Supreme Court was today forced to step in
New Delhi: Minutes after lawyers disrupted JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar's sedition case proceedings in the Supreme Court, the top court issued strict guidelines for a hearing in the Patiala House courtroom where accused will be
New Delhi: Amid the raging political row over police crack down on JNU students, an intelligence report has revealed that Kashmiri separatists' sympathisers had planned to commemorate the anniversary of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru's
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