{"id":180286,"date":"2025-08-01T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=180286"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:56:12","slug":"detained-student-activist-sharjeel-imam-plans-to-contest-bihar-assembly-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/08\/01\/detained-student-activist-sharjeel-imam-plans-to-contest-bihar-assembly-elections.html","title":{"rendered":"Detained student activist Sharjeel Imam plans to contest Bihar Assembly elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-180289\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/08\/images-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"181\" \/>New Delhi: Prominent student activist and a boisterous voice against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC), Sharjeel Imam, is reportedly planning to contest the upcoming Bihar assembly elections scheduled for October-November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, Sharjeel Imam is currently lodged in Guwahati Central Jail in Assam. He has been imprisoned since January 2020 under sedition and UAPA charges.<\/p>\n<p>The former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student, who hails from Kako village in Bihar\u2019s Jehanabad district, intends to run as an independent candidate from the Bahadurganj constituency in Kishanganj district, media reports said .<\/p>\n<p>Imam was arrested during the protests against CAA and the NRC, with Delhi Police alleging that his speeches ignited protests at Jamia Millia Islamia University and contributed to tensions preceding the largely anti-Muslim Northeast Delhi riots in 2020. Imam was booked in multiple cases related to these incidents.<\/p>\n<p>He also took part in the Shaheen Bagh protest, a notable 100-day peaceful sit-in in New Delhi against the CAA. Despite facing multiple sedition and UAPA charges, he has obtained bail in six separate cases.<\/p>\n<p>His bail plea in the Delhi violence conspiracy case under UAPA has been pending for two years and nine months in the Delhi High Court. Over the past three years, there have been 70 hearings regarding his bail plea, with seven different benches hearing the case. Three judges have even recused themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Prominent student activist and a boisterous voice against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC), Sharjeel Imam, is reportedly planning to contest the upcoming Bihar assembly elections scheduled for October-November 2025. According to Kashmir Media Service, Sharjeel Imam is currently lodged in Guwahati Central Jail in Assam. He has &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":180289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}