MPs, Student Groups Demand Rollback of JNUSU Office Bearers' Rustication

• Several student organizations, teachers, and MPs held a joint press conference in New Delhi to support JNUSU and oppose disciplinary action.
• Speakers demanded the JNU administration revoke the rustication of JNUSU office bearers and a former president, and withdraw student fines.
• Lok Sabha MP Raja Ram Singh and Rajya Sabha MP V Sivadasan condemned the rustication, calling it an attack on JNU's democratic values and student rights.
• Karnataka Congress MP Sashikant Senthil stated the rustication is an attack on free thinking, moving JNU towards surveillance over scholarships.
• The JNU administration rusticated five PhD students, including four JNUSU office-bearers, for two semesters for vandalizing FRT access gates at the Dr B R Ambedkar Central Library on November 21, 2025.