Even before controversy over JNUSU's event calling for India's destruction, pro Afzal slogans and sedition charges on Kanhaiah Kumar died down, Delhi University book shocked all by branding freedom fighter Shaheed Bhagat Singh as a terrorist.
This drew huge protests from Bhagat Singh's family who have taken the matter with the university authorities and with the HRD ministry. Historians Bipin CHadra and Mridula Mukherjee in their book titled "India's Struggle for Independence' mentioned Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Surya Sen and others as "revolutionary terrorists" in Chapter 20.
The book also mentioned Chittagong movement a 'terrorist act', while Sanders killing has been called an 'act of terrorism'.Bhagat Singh's family members wrote a letter to Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani asking her to intervene and make appropriate changes.
Bhagat Singh's nephew Abhey Singh Sandhu said "This is a very sad precedent that even after 68 years of Independence such words are used for the revolutionaries, who gave their lives for the freedom of the nation.The Britishers, who hanged Bhagat Singh, described him as 'true revolutionary' in their judgement, even they didn't use words like terror or terrorism. Using such words for revolutionaries in an attempt to stir controversy is very unfortunate,"
