Student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was given a roaring welcome at JNU upon his release from Tihar jail after being granted a six-month interim bail by the Delhi High Court on Thursday. It’s been nearly three weeks after he was arrested on a controversial sedition charge. Kanhaiya took on the Prime Minister and led a scathing attack on the BJP-led NDA regime at the Centre, saying “Modi Ji only says ‘Mann Ki Baat’, but doesn’t listen to it”.

“I have many differences with the PM but I agree with his tweet Satyameva Jayate because these words are in our Constitution,” he said. “We are not seeking ‘Azaadi'(freedom) from India. We want ‘Azaadi’ within India,” Kanhaiya said.

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“When he (Modi) was speaking I wanted to tell him to talk about Hitler as well. He should speak about Mussolini as well, after all, his guru Golwalker (second RSS chief) had met the former,” he said.

The 28-year-old said that he saluted the soldiers guarding the country. “But the soldiers, who die at the border are the sons and brothers of those who die in the country,” he said, referring to the farmer suicides. “This attack is to de-legitimate the UGC protest and to prevent justice to Rohith Vemula.

The fight which was initiated by Rohith Vemula, all of you and peace-loving people in the country, will be pursued by us and we’ll win this battle,” he said. “If you speak against the government, their cyber cell will frame you using doctored videos and count the number of condoms in your hostel,” he said.

“I would like to thank everyone at the JNU. All the people, whether media, political people, non-civil society, who stood for saving JNU and those who want justice for Rohith Vemula, I want to salute them,” Kanhaiya ended.