A fiery clash erupted in the Parliament after Delhi Police personnel in plainclothes attempted to arrest Students’ Federation of India (SFI) leader and former JNU student union president Aishe Ghosh at the CPI(M) national headquarters in New Delhi. The incident, captured on video, showed CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas confronting officers inside AKG Bhavan over entering a recognized national party office without prior notification to arrest Ghosh regarding a past protest case. Raising the issue during parliamentary proceedings, Opposition leaders—including Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge—strongly condemned the police action, characterizing it as an unauthorized intrusion and an escalating assault on democratic dissent. Responding to the uproar, Union Minister and Leader of the House JP Nadda defended the police presence as a “normal law and order situation,” urging the assembly not to sensationalize routine law enforcement operations. Drawing on his own past experience as a student activist who faced multiple arrests during the 1975 Emergency under the Congress administration, Nadda argued that student activists taking the law into their own hands must expect appropriate police action. While the Opposition demanded accountability and accused the government of using state machinery to intimidate student movement leaders, the Treasury benches maintained that law enforcement agencies were merely carrying out standard procedural duties.
