Chaos prevailed at a meeting addressed by JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar on Thursday after a slogan-shouting young man threw a slipper at him.
The incident occurred at Sundraiah Vignan Kendram, as Kanhiaya Kumar was beginning his address at the seminar on constitutional rights.
The man sitting among the audience stood up, shouted slogans against the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president and threw a slipper towards him on the dais. It, however, missed the target.
He then questioned why Kanhaiya Kumar, who he alleged supports terrorists like Afzal Guru, was being allowed to share the stage.
Activists of All India Students Federation (AISF) and others among the audience caught hold of him and roughed him up even as Kanhaiya Kumar appealed for restraint.
Police intervened to take custody of the youth. Another young man said to be accompanying him was also arrested. Their identity was not immediately known.
Continuing with his speech, Kanhaiya Kumar said that such incidents do not matter to him. Do whatever you want to do, I am not the one to get scared. My way is the Gandhian way, he said.
The student leader wanted to know at whose behest they are resorting to such acts.
Kanhaiya Kumar was arrested on charges of sedition last month after anti-national slogans were allegedly raised during a meeting organised in the memory of Parliament attack convict Guru on JNU campus in New Delhi.
Police did not allow him to enter University of Hyderabad on Wednesday. He wanted to address students and pay tributes to Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research scholar who committed suicide in January.
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