Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, a prominent BJP leader with deep ties to student movements, has issued a scathing rebuke of the recent JNU disturbances, decrying them as deliberate ploys to foment discord without any evidentiary foundation. ‘We too were student leaders who courted arrest for our beliefs, yet we never stooped to baseless or unbounded protests,’ he reminisced during a media interaction.
Naqvi painted a grim picture: ‘These are not protests; they’re anarchy without facts or restraint, calculated to pollute the atmosphere. We cannot allow this under any pretext.’
Shifting to the NCERT issue, he praised the Supreme Court’s cognizance and the government’s forward momentum. ‘Reforms are in motion—no point in overhyping it now,’ he remarked pragmatically.
Naqvi’s sharpest barbs targeted Congress, which he accused of democratic defiance. ‘Post-mandate bitterness has pushed them against the republic’s ethos, an intolerable shift,’ he said. Rather than reconciling with reality, the party purportedly leverages sundry issues to spread disinformation and dread nationwide—a tactic doomed to fail.
In the broader context of India’s dynamic polity, Naqvi’s intervention advocates for accountability in activism, steering the conversation toward constructive paths amid ongoing controversies.