AGARTALA, Feb 19 (TIWN): Condemning the attack on the Journalist at JNU row, Tripura Journalist union on Thursday informed that the journalist of the state on Friday will wear black badges and hold rally to protest against the attack.

Journalists in Tripura will stage a protest march on Friday against the violence that took place in Patiala House court on Monday. Some students were thrashed and reporters heckled by a group of lawyers yesterday when JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was being produced in the court.

Violence broke out between lawyers and journalists at the Patiala House Court in New Delhi on 15 February afternoon. The incident took place as the president of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)'s student union was due to be appearing on charges of sedition for his role in an event hosted at the university.

JNU has been at the centre of intense media coverage, following the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar on 12 February. His arrest came as JNU students staged a rally discussing the hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru, the terrorist convicted over a 2001 plot to attack the Indian Parliament. Anti-India slogans were allegedly chanted by some students during the rally, prompting calls for the institution to be shut down amidst fears it was breeding "anti-nationals".

However, condemning the attack on Journalist at Delhi, Tripura Journalist union to wear black badge and hold protest rally in the city on Friday.

It is to be mentioned here that The Jawaharlal Nehru university turned into a battleground as the Right and Left clashed when a group of Left-oriented students called a meeting to commemorate the “judicial killing” of Afzal Guru, who was hanged on February 9, 2013 for his role in the 2001 attack on Parliament, and the lesser-known co-founder of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Maqbool Bhat, who was hanged in 1984, are “martyrs” in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

The situation turned violent and the administration had to call in the police. A poster, which was pasted all across the campus, read: “There will be an art and a photo exhibition portraying the history of the occupation of Kashmir and the people’s struggle against it.”

Interestingly, the commemorative meeting went ahead even after the JNU administration revoked permission for the programme in the wake of complaints from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).