Karnataka

Bharatiya Janta Party

BJP

Sunanda Pushkar

Citizen Amendment Act

Shashi Tharoor

Jamia Millia Islamia

Untitled Carousel 'Is this democracy?' Video of Jamia student crying amid protests goes viral The university turned into a battlefield as police entered the campus and also used force to detain student protesters.

A screenshot of a tweet posted on the official Twitter handle of BJP Karnataka.

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Theunit of the) sparked a row after they dragged late's name in the ongoing protests over(CAA) aftertweeted a video of a Jamia student.Theuniversity witnessed violence after police entered the campus and used force against the students.Following the incident, a video of Ranchi-based Jamia student Anugya weeping before cameras went viral. In the video, she expresses anger and fear over the situation questioning how this kind of violence could even take place in a democracy.Later, senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor also tweeted the video saying it was unbearable to watch."Listen to the voices of our assaulted students, their pain and bewilderment that this is happening to them in what they grew up thinking of as a democracy. This government has taught us a valuable lesson: don’t take your freedoms for granted. Resist!."The Karnataka BJP also reacted to Tharoor's tweet saying the student (in a video) should consider herself lucky to narrate her fake story."Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor wasn't that lucky, she never got a chance to explain her pain and suffering caused by the person she trusted the most," tweeted Karnataka BJP.Pushkar was found dead in a suite of a luxury hotel in New Delhi on the night of January 17, 2014. The couple was staying in the hotel as the official bungalow of Tharoor was being renovated at that time.The Karnataka unit also slammed Priyanka Gandhi for calling the Modi government a coward while slamming it for the attack on students."Cowards are those who steal the Gandhi surname to fool people . A person is a coward when he unleashes @INCIndia Goons on innocent sikhs. Cowards are those crooks who install a puppet as PM to plunder the nation in his name. Go figure out who is coward!!!," tweeted the official handle.Meanwhile, 10 people with criminal backgrounds have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the violence near Jamia.