Watch | Are Sedition Charges on JNU Students Politically Motivated?

The JNU students have questioned the intent behind filing the chargesheet just a few months ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

New Delhi: The Delhi police on Monday filed its chargesheet against Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and others in a sedition case lodged in February 2016. They are accused of shouting ‘anti-India’ slogans during an event organised on the JNU campus on the anniversary of the hanging of Afzal Guru.

The Wire’s senior editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani discusses whether the Narendra Modi government is using the nationalism issue again before elections to gain votes.