TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress president Rahul Gandhi today supported a petition against Union minister Jayant Sinha that sought withdrawal of his Harvard alumni status after he felicitated criminals convicted of lynching. The petition has been launched by a student of Master of Public Policy at Harvard University, Boston in the US from where Sinha has also graduated, and sought that his alumni status be withdrawn for “honouring criminals”.
The petition to the President of Harvard University, Boston, has condemned the minister’s action, saying it “has shocked the nation and brought disrepute to the institution”. “If the sight of a highly educated MP and central minister, Jayant Sinha, garlanding and honouring criminals convicted of lynching an innocent man, fills you with disgust, click on the link and support this petition,” Gandhi said on Twitter, urging people to sign the petition against Sinha.
Sinha has been at the centre of a row after he garlanded the lynching convicts at his residence in Hazaribagh in Jharkhand after they came out of prison on bail last week. The opposition parties led by the Congress attacked him and the Modi government over the issue, saying that this act gives “a guarantee to” the perpetrators that they have the support and encouragement of the government. Sinha, on his part, has claimed that he unequivocally condemns all acts of violence, and rejected any type of vigilantism.
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