Leftist activist Amulya Leona Noronha, was arrested on the charges of sedition after raising slogans of 'Pakistan Zindabad' in a rally of AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi.
Umar Khalid went on to claim that if Aaditya Thackeray was present at the venue, he would not have shared the stage with him. Further, Khalid said that the young leader of 'secular' Shiv Sena has not stated a clear stand on the issue of the NPR.
Kanhaiya Kumar is currently on bail for allegedly chanting anti-national slogans at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi in 2016. The Delhi Police Special Cell had submitted 1200-page charge-sheet in January this year against Kanhaiya Kumar and other left-wing students of the JNU.
Former IAS officer Shah Faesal, who had resigned recently to join politics, launched his political party the 'Jammu and Kashmir Peoples' Movement' which was joined by career protestor Shehla Rashid
SQR Ilyas decision to be a part of the Indian election process comes at a time when his son Umar Khalid, who is part of 'Break-India' brigade has been chargesheeted for sedition