Kanhaiya Kumar is a leader of the All India Student Federation (AISF), the student wing of the Communist Party of India(CPI). He was elected president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union in 2015. In February 2016, he was arrested and charged with sedition on the charges of raising anti-India slogans in a student rally against the 2013 hanging ofMohammed Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri separatist convicted over the 2001 Indian Parliament attack.[1] He was released on interim bail at 2 March 2016, since no evidence of Kumar participating in anti-national slogans has been presented by the police.[2][3]In parallel, a disciplinary committee constituted by JNU Vice-Chancellor have also investigated the controversial event and submitted the report. Final decision is awaited from the JNU administration.
Kanhaiya Kumar was born and brought up in the village of Bihar in Begusarai district, in Bihar, India. This village is part of the Teghra legislative assembly constituency, known to be a stronghold of the Communist Party of India (CPI).[7] Kumar’s father, Jaishankar Singh, suffers from paralysis and has been bedridden for a few years. His mother, Meena Devi, is an Anganwadi worker. He has an elder brother who works in the private sector. His family members have traditionally been supporters of the CPI
On 12 February 2016, Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested by the Delhi police. A case was registered against him on Feb 13, under Indian Penal Code Sections 124-A (sedition) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy). He was charged over an event organised by some students at the Jawaharlal Nehru university campus against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, following complaints by Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Maheish Girri and the ABVP. Kanhaiya Kumar denied the charges and said that he was neither shouting any slogan nor saying anything against integrity of the country. He said in an interview that "I dissociate myself from the slogans which were shouted in the event. I have full faith in the Constitution of the country and I always say that Kashmir is an integral part of India”.[12] During his interrogation Kanhaiya insisted that he did not say anything that was seditious
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