Summary Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on February 12 over a rally.
NEW DELHI (Web Desk/ AFP) - Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) youth wing leader, who had announced a reward of Rs5 lac for cutting off Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s tongue, was expelled from primary membership of the party for six years.
The president of district unit of BJP, Harish Shakya, told reporters that the party has nothing to do with Kuldeep Varshney’s controversial statement.
“Varshnay’s statement is his personal one and the party has nothing to do with it... he has been expelled from the primary membership of the party for making such a statement without the consent of party office bearers,” he said.
Varshnay had on Friday announced R5 lakh prize money for cutting off the tongue of Kanhaiya Kumar who he had alleged was speaking against the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi ever since he had been released on bail.
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Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on February 12 over a rally at Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) at which anti-India slogans were chanted.
He had been in custody in the capital’s Tihar jail since February 17.
