Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 30

(From left) Punjab Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa, Maj Gen GD Bakshi (retd) and Sambit Patra attend a seminar at Law Bhawan in Sector 37, Chandigarh. Tribune Photo: Manoj Mahajan

JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and others, who raised “anti-India” slogans recently at the JNU, were criticised by speakers present during a seminar on ‘National Security Threats in India-2020’ organised by the Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena Foundation and Citizen 4 Forces at Law Bhawan in Sector 37 today.Punjab Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa was the chief guest.The JNU issue was taken up elaborately and the speakers accused leaders of the Congress and left parties for supporting those who were raising “anti-national” slogans and observing the death anniversary of a terrorist, Afzal Guru.“Those who compare Kanhaiya with Bhagat Singh do not know what nationalism is,” BJP Spokesperson Dr Sambit Patra said.Giving solution of the problem, he said, “India is globally known for spiritualism and we have to fight with the internal security threats with spiritual powers.”Col (retd) RSN Singh, former RAW chief, said proxy war was a new challenge before the country. There is no development without peace, he added.Meanwhile, BJP leader Dinesh Kumar, Assistant Media Advisor to Punjab Government Vineet Joshi, Supreme Court lawyer Aditya Shankar and chairman of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh Bar Council Rajat Gautam also expressed their views.