Satyam Surana, an Indian student who gained recognition for picking up the Indian flag during an attack on the Indian embassy in London has again come into limelight and is now speaking about the alleged hate campaign during his participation in college student union elections at the London School of Economics.Surana believes the campaign stemmed from resentment towards Indias growing global influence.Surana has asserted that a highly well-planned campaign was launched against him just hours before voting took place. He claimed that in an attempt to incite a boycott against him and his election effort, this campaign attempted to link him to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and called him a fascist.The student, who was born in Pune, is currently doing an LLM at the London School of Economics his term ends later this year. He has also been a practitioner at the Bombay High Court for a few months.Speaking about the entire series of events, he stated that he submitted his name for general secretary when the LSE elections were announced in early March and February. He also alleged that his posters were ripped off, torn, soon after the campaign begun. Then after replacing the posters, they were again defaced by cross marks. #WATCH | An Indian Student at the London School of Economics, Satyam Surana who came to the limelight when he picked up the tricolour from the road, defying the attack at the Indian High Commission in the United Kingdom by extremist elements last year, now alleges hate campaigns… pic.twitter.com/aXsVC2PIWD— ANI (@ANI) March 27, 2024He went on to say that this was a well-planned hate and toolkit campaign involving individuals with political motivations against the current BJP administration in India, rather than a haphazard or individual campaign.Satyam goes so far as to say that people who attacked him are members of the same group that finds it difficult to accept Indias achievement under Prime Minister Narendra Modis direction, which is why they propagate such vicious and false information.
