‘I Am Not a Terrorist’, Says Umar Khaled to JNU Students

Umar Khaled came back to campus and delivered a speech to the students and media about the charges against him.

Umar Khaled, student of JNU. (Photo: The Quint)

Umar Khalid, one of the six students accused of raising anti-national slogans at the JNU on February 9, late on Sunday said he was “not a terrorist”, adding the BJP government “needed an excuse to target the campus”.

My name is Umar Khalid and I’m not a terrorist. The attack (on the university) is not because of the program which was organised on 9 Feburary, but because the government needs an excuse to attack us.

Khalid, along with four other accused, Anant Prakash Narayan, Ashutosh Kumar, Rama Naga, Anirban Bhattacharya, returned to the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus late on Sunday.

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

He also refuted the media reports that he made 800 calls to ‘Gulf or Kashmir’ a few days before the program was organised.