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: Senior BJP leader and Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu today took a jibe at JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar saying he can join politics as his ‘favourite' political party is almost in single digit in
New Delhi: To express solidarity with Kanhaiya Kumar and celebrate his return from jail, JNU students took out a victory march at the university campus tonight. Carrying posters of B R Ambedkar and shouting slogans like
New Delhi: JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar today returned to the university campus in a festive atmosphere after being released on bail from Tihar jail. In a fiery sppech vowing to continue his fight against
New Delhi: Kanhaiya Kumar, president of the JNU Students Union, today reached the university campus, triggering celebrations among students who had been protesting against his arrest.Kanhaiya was released from Tihar jail today amid high security
New Delhi: The Delhi government panel probing the JNU incident where anti-India slogans were allegedly raised has given a clean chit to JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid, saying there was no direct link
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Wednesday made a scathing observation on the Afzal Guru event organised at JNU and alleged anti-national slogans raised in the varsity campus last month even as the court granted
New Delhi: JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar is likely to walk out from Tihar jail after 19 days of imprisonment for having allegedly raised anti-India slogans. The event at JNU where these slogans were raised had
New Delhi: A day after the Delhi High Court granted him an interim bail of six months, JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar will walk out of the Tihar Jail today. The court granted the interim bail
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will today decide the fate of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar when it pronounces its order on his bail plea in connection with a sedition
New Delhi: The Delhi Police today admitted before the Delhi High Court that "it has no video footage" which could show that JNU student union chief Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on sedition charges, was shouting anti-national
New Delhi: JNU Students Union Vice President Shehla Rashid Shora who had earlier received a hate letter for opposing Ramdev's visit to the university has now received a similar communication over her agitation against imposing of
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today reserved its verdict on the bail plea of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, who refuted police's allegation that he was raising anti-India slogans on February 9 at the JNU campus. Justice Pratibha Rani,
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will today resume hearing on a bail plea of JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a sedition case for allegedly raising anti-India slogans in the university campus.The hearing assumes
New Delhi: With posters of "Rohith ka JNU" plastered across the walls of the varsity, the students and teachers are eagerly waiting for the students union president Kanhaiya Kumar to be back on campus from
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is likely to resume tomorrow hearing on a bail plea of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested in a sedition case for allegedly raising anti-India slogans in the university campus. Justice
New Delhi: A security guard at JNU campus and a policeman, said to be eyewitnesses who have also recorded their statements in the sedition case, have been purportedly seen in a sting video saying that
New Delhi: Delhi Police today interrogated JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya together for the first time at a south Delhi police station in connection with the sedition case.The questioning started in
New Delhi: Finance minister Arun Jaitley today put forth a strong counter to the opposition's allegations that the government was cracking down on students because it didn't agree with their views, saying “hate speech can
New Delhi: A Delhi court today refused to allow Delhi Police to collect voice samples of two JNU students -- Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, arrested in a sedition case.According to court sources, Metropolitan Magistrate
New Delhi: A court in Delhi today sent two JNU students – Umar Khalid and Anirban – to police custody for three days. Both students are charged with sedition in relation to a pro-Afzal event
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