My son will win the battle against Hinduvta politics

 As Jawaharlal Nehru University students union president Kanhaiya Kumar stays in Tihar jail on charges of sedition, his parents can't help but feel proud of their son, a "real hero", who they believe has been wrongly arrested and branded as an anti-national.

Hailing from a village in Begusarai, Kanhaiya Kumar's parents Jaishankar Singh andMeena Devi, spoke to M I Khan in Patna.

Kanhaiya has become a household name today. Some people say he deserves punishment for his 'crime'.

Meena Devi: Mujhe garv hain ki woh mera beta hai aur main uski maa hoon (I am proud that Kanhaiya is my son and I am his mother).

Kanhaiya was targeted for his Communist ideology. He has been challenging and countering the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the ABVP (Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad) in and outside the JNU campus.

My son has not committed any crime and he is not anti-national.

His only crime is that he is pro-poor, pro-marginalised, pro-people and has been speaking against those who represent the rich, the powerful in the country and society.

My son is a nationalist and not a supporter of Hinduvta politics. That is his only crime.

Main uski ma hoon, mujhe pata hain ki mera beta desh-virodhi ho hi nahin sakta, yeh baat aaj sabhi jaan gaye hain (I am his mother and know my son is not anti-national. Now, the whole world knows it).

Hum garib hain, ho sakte hain hamare pass dhan-daulat nahin hain, lekin hamein bhi haq hain desh ke khushali ke sapne dekhne ka. Mera beta usi sapne ko dekhta hain (We are poor, we don't have much money, but we do have the right to dream about the successful future of our country. My son was only trying to realise these dreams).