NEW DELHI: It's been a month since the JNU row grabbed headlines. A lot has been written about it and the students who got charged with sedition . But very little light has been shed on ABVP's Saurabh Sharma, the JNUSU joint secretary who had called a section of the media to the university on February 9, and which had resulted in a student protest transforming into a national debate.Sharma not only broke the jinx for ABVP in JNUSU polls after nearly 15 years but he has also been quite vocal about what he calls "anti-national activities" on campus. Probably, he can't match Kanhaiya Kumar in oratory or Shehla Rashid Shora in popularity, but his teachers say he has organisational skills. Nevertheless, he has become quite unpopular among a section of the students.A teacher from the School of Social Sciences said, "With Shehla and Rama busy with movements like ‘occupy UGC' outside the campus and Kanhaiya not being very active, Sharma became the face of JNUSU and he managed it well. Not a very impressive speaker, but he realised the importance of grassroots engagement. To make a university event a talking point in the country is an achievement in itself."Yet Sharma himself never imagined the issue will become so big, he said.An engineering graduate, he landed in JNU in 2012 to pursue MTech and is now pursuing a PhD in neuro science. A resident of Jhelum hostel, he comes from a small town in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh. But he had no political affiliation till he stepped into JNU where he joined ABVP as he could "relate to their ideology".Sharma has a younger brother and sister and his father is a pharmacist. He used to work in the farm of his uncles. "Since I was good in studies, my uncles helped me by financing a part of my BTech," he said.He said Kanhaiya acts like a politician and had raised the slogan, "bandook ke nok pe lenge azadi (we will take freedom with guns)" at the February 9 event.Sharma even claimed that a pro-Afzal protester had also taken out a pistol.