According to a purported video, the protest was held on Monday night inside the campus. Aditi Mishra, JNU Students’ Union president, said that every year, students hold a protest to condemn the violence which occurred on the campus on January 5, 2020

Amidst an ongoing `language war` in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, speaking at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi on Thursday, asserted that language should not be a source of conflict and that Marathi individuals are not narrow-minded on such issues