JNU cancels permission for Umar Khalid book discussion over ‘non-disclosure’ of event details

The discussion on the book Fractured Communities: Adivasi Histories and the Politics of Power is being organised by JNU Students’ Union. PIC/X/@aditi_jnu

The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Sunday said that permission has been cancelled for an August 10 discussion by JNUSU on a book authored by its former student Umar Khalid, who is in jail in the 2020 northeast Delhi riots conspiracy case, at a university auditorium over "non-disclosure of full facts" about the event.

The discussion on the book "Fractured Communities: Adivasi Histories and the Politics of Power" is being organised by JNU Students' Union. JNUSU alleged that the cancellation was an "arbitrary and authoritarian" decision by the administration.

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