New Delhi : Amid the raging row over alleged anti-national remarks at an event in the JNU campus, Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Sunday said India is not going to be “blown away” by a few slogans from some “crazy people”, even as he called the reaction to the controversy “disproportionate”. “I am unclear about what purpose is to be served by these crazy people who made these slogans against the country. I don’t know what context was involved there, unless they thought they were doing some favour to some Kashmiri movement.
“But no matter what they said and did, I think that we shouldn’t be so exercised. India is not going to be blown away by a few slogans by some crazy people,” he said.
The former Union minister also crticised the reaction to the controversy, terming it as “disproportionate”. It could have been handled within the university itself, instead of being presented as a major threat to the country. Khurshid was speaking at a panel discussion titled — ‘Media and the intolerance debate: Has verdict 2014 changed India –at the closing session of the first Delhi Gymkhana Club literature festival.−PTI
