Modi govt wrong to label Kanhaiya anti-national: BJP ally Uddhav Thackeray

The Narendra Modi government was wrong to label JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar as anti-national and to file a sedition case against him, said BJP ally Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray during a party meeting on Sunday.

"It is wrong to brand Kanhaiya as anti-national and slap a sedition case against him. He is not anti-national," said Thackeray.

At the meeting, Thackeray spoke about three young men who have dominated headlines since January, Kanhaiya Kumar, Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula who committed suicide at Hyderabad University, and Hardik Patel, leader of the Patedar movement in Gujarat, according to

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"Who gave birth to Kanhaiya, Hardik Patel and Rohith Vemula? The government should ponder over it," he said.

Thackeray said that instead of guiding India's youth, the central government is "misleading" them.

"When Hardik Patel, the Patel quota stir spearhead, became popular, he was charged with sedition, and now Kumar is fighting against the government," he said.

He said that he would decide whether to continue the Shiv Sena's alliance in the future. "This alliance was founded on the issue of Hindutva. However, that issue seems to have been kept on the backburner. If this issue is set aside, an alliance with the BJP will not happen," he said.