Jawaharlal Nehru University administration has cancelled BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s talk – titled ‘Why Ram Mandir in Ayodhya?’ – scheduled to be to be held in the varsity’s Koyna Hostel on 6 December, according to reports.
Times Now reported that another talk by Communist Party of India (Marxist) former general secretary Prakash Karat, will take place as scheduled at the Sabarmati Mess at 9:30 pm on 6 December.
CNN-News18 quoted Swamy as saying: “Height of tolerance in JNU and now we know what the university’s tolerance level is. They must have mounted pressure on VC and most VCs are spineless so they cancelled my talk in JNU. Possibly the Left-wing students didn’t want to hear my arguments”,
The scheduled talk comes on the 25th anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid. On Tuesday 5 December, the Supreme Court deferred the next hearing in the Ayodhya dispute to 8 February 2018.