BJP to protest against Congress’s ‘political patronage’ of dismissed JNU academic

Karyakartas of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Manipur stage a rally demanding the resignation of Congress MP Angomcha Bimol Akoijam from the Lok Sabha on moral grounds following his dismissal from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in connection with sexual harassment complaints on October 10, 2026 | Photo Credit: ANI

Amid the ongoing protests against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the security clampdown in the national capital, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Mahila Morcha has announced a protest march on Monday (October 12, 2026) against the Congress over what it called the “political patronage” extended by the Opposition party to Congress MP and former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) professor Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, who was dismissed from service on October 8 on charges of sexually exploiting female students.