We are descending into anarchy, says Chidambaram on JNU violence

Former Union minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram said that Sunday's JNU violence shows that "we are descending into anarchy."

New Delhi: Condemning the violence in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus, former Finance Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday attacked the Central government over the matter and called it as the "most clinching evidence" that the country is "rapidly descending into anarchy".

Chidambaram while addressing a press conference said, "Last night masked men entered the JNU campus and assaulted students as well as teachers this incident is perhaps the most clinching evidence that we are rapidly descending into anarchy."

The Congress leader demanded the perpetrators of violence be identified and arrested within 24 hours and brought to justice. "We also demand that accountability on officers be fixed and action taken immediately."

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"The incident has taken place in the national capital in India's foremost university under the watch of the central government, the Home Minister, the LG and the Commissioner of Police," he said.

"This is the gravest act of impunity that we have seen in recent times. Nothing can be more shocking and shameful," said Chidambaram.

He said it is a failure on the part of the Delhi Police and questioned if the police had mandatory intelligence.

"If they did not, their intelligence gathering was pathetic, if they did, it was an atrocious failure of responsibility. In either event, the Commissioner of Police must be held accountable."

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