JNU Professor-Kashmir is Illegaly occupied by India & demanding Aazadi is justified

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Kashmir illegally occupied by India: JNU professor

NEW DELHI: The JNU row refuses to die down.Now, a new video has surfaced showing a professor of the university saying Kashmir is not a part of India and that pro-azaadi slogans are justified."Everyone knows that India is illegally occupying Kashmir. It is said the world over. Everybody accepts (it)," professor Nivedita Menon is seen telling a gathering of JNU students on February 22.After an event at JNU's campus last month, three students were arrested on charges of sedition for allegedly chanting anti-national slogans, some allegedly in favour of independence for Kashmir."The map of India in foreign publications like Time and Newsweek show a different map of Kashmir. These copies of the magazines always create a lot of controversies and are censored and destroyed. When the whole world is talking about India's illegal occupation of Kashmir, then we should think the pro-azaadi slogans in the valley are justified," the professor says in the video.Menon teaches at the Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory at the School of International Studies in JNU. The video of her speech was uploaded on YouTube on February 27.The Bharatiya Janata Party's student wing ABVP has condemned Menon's statement. It wants a resolution be brought in JNUSU condemning such statements and demanded an apology from Menon. (We promise to vote in favour of it (the resolution)," the ABVP said in a statement.Menon, however, said, "I don't believe anything I said was anti-national."JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested last month on sedition charges for holding the event at the university on February 9 during which anti-India slogans were allegedly raised.His arrest triggered widespread outrage among students and teachers and drew severe criticism from non-BJP political parties.