New Delhi: On the night of 31 March, 1997, angry students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) gathered at the Bihar Bhawan in Delhi demanding that Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav come out and meet them. According to a Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation leader, Lalu responded by calling the students “drug-crazed upper caste feudal boys.”

The JNU students were protesting against the murder of Chandrashekhar Prasad, a rising star of the CPI(ML) Liberation, and a two-time JNUSU president, who was shot dead in Siwan by sharpshooters allegedly in the employ of the notorious Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) strongman and MP Mohammad Shahabuddin.

Over 28 years later, the RJD has fielded Shahabuddin’s son Osama Shahab from Raghunathpur in Siwan as its candidate for the

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