I am a Muslim but I am not a terrorist: Umar Khalid

February 22, 2016 09:31

The JNU campus came alive on Sunday night when five students accused of raising anti-national slogans, returned to the university.

The spotlight was on Umar Khalid, one of the two names that had came up prominently in the controversy. The other one being JNU students' union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who is in Tihar now.

A large number of students had gathered outside the administrative block and shouted slogans in support for Umar Khalid, Anant Prakash Narayan, Ashutosh Kumar, Rama Naga and Anirban Bhattacharya.

"In the last seven years in campus I never felt I was a Muslim and in last 10 days I was made to feel, I was a Muslim. I am a Muslim but not a terrorist," said Khalid, who fled the campus after the incident.

"The attack (on the university) is not because of the programme which was organised on February 9, but because the government needs an excuse to attack us," Khalid said, addressing students in front of the admin block at the campus.

"The media, all this while, presented a lot of things about me. The media trial, this propaganda... I know what my family is going through," Khalid said.

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