HYDERABAD: The three-day national council meeting of the Communist Party of India, held here in the last week of January, passed a censure motion against Kanhaiya Kumar, former president of Jawaharlal Nehru University students’ union. He is presently a member of party’s national executive council.
National leaders, including CPI national general secretary D Raja, attended the three-day meeting that concluded on January 31. The censure motion was taken up after Kanhaiya’s supporters had roughed up Indu Bhushan, the office secretary, in the party office at Patna on December 1. Local leaders said Bhushan was attacked because the Begusarai district council meeting had been postponed and Kanhaiya had not been informed about the change.
CPI leaders said Kanhaiya needed to be cautioned as he had earlier issued statements about CPI having turned into “Confusion Party of India.” Kanhaiya had clarified later that he did not take part in the incident. He had also apologized for the action of his supporters. “Except for three members, all others in the meeting supported the censure motion. In all, 110 members were present when the motion was adopted against Kanhaiya,” CPI Telangana state secretary Chada Venkat Reddy told the TOI. Kumar did not attend the meeting on health grounds.
“The censure motion was aimed at reprimanding the young leader and telling him to be careful in the future,” said Venkat Reddy.