07-09-2007, 02:31 AM
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Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
Attempts are being made by the Left leaders to fuel embarrass on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus. The left leaders including Sitaram Yechury visited the campus on Saturday night to show solidarity with the punished students and demanded the revocation of the punishments within 48 hours, failing which the issue would have to become a question in Parliament. The students in question have been punished for their indecent behaviour with the university registrar Avais Ahmed and their continuous defiance of university orders.
<b>"A massive protest public meeting took place at JNU last night which was addressed by former JNUSU office bearers including CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury, senior journalist Amit Sengupta, NCP leader DP Tripathi and Liberation editor Kavita Krishnan. The former office-bearers advised the JNU Vice-Chancellor to revoke the punishments within 48 hours, failing which the issue would have to become a question in Parliament,"</b> read a press note issued by the JNU Students' Union (JNUSU) on Sunday. The JNUSU has also decided to stage a mass hunger strike on Sunday night to protest against the punishment by the Vice-Chancellor (VC). Meanwhile, the hunger strike of the punished students that includes the president, vice-president and joint secretary of JNUSU entered the ninth day on Sunday.
<b>"Long before the gherao, JNU V-C Prof BB Bhattacharya has had the agenda of ridding JNU of politics - and especially of leftist politics, and the punishments are part of that agenda,"</b> the JNUSU General Secretary Sandeep Singh said. He said that fact the JNU VC's vision is biased: biased in favour of AC classrooms and against scholarships for the needy; biased in favour of marble floors and against workers' minimum wages. Pointing out a speech made by Bhattacharya to the bankers in Chandigarh in October 2006, where he allegedly advocated the marginalisation of student politics, Sandeep said that the V-C's sole aim behind all these punishments is to end campus politics. "The spectre of Leftism is haunting the JNU V-C and he wants to ends this forever," he said.
A few days before the JNU V-C had called a press conference to clarify that the punishment to the 10 students was because of their protests against violation of worker's rights in the campus but because of their indecent and shameful behaviour with the registrar. The registrar was forced by the students to remain inside his car for more than six hours.
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Durgesh Nandan Jha | New Delhi
Attempts are being made by the Left leaders to fuel embarrass on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus. The left leaders including Sitaram Yechury visited the campus on Saturday night to show solidarity with the punished students and demanded the revocation of the punishments within 48 hours, failing which the issue would have to become a question in Parliament. The students in question have been punished for their indecent behaviour with the university registrar Avais Ahmed and their continuous defiance of university orders.
<b>"A massive protest public meeting took place at JNU last night which was addressed by former JNUSU office bearers including CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury, senior journalist Amit Sengupta, NCP leader DP Tripathi and Liberation editor Kavita Krishnan. The former office-bearers advised the JNU Vice-Chancellor to revoke the punishments within 48 hours, failing which the issue would have to become a question in Parliament,"</b> read a press note issued by the JNU Students' Union (JNUSU) on Sunday. The JNUSU has also decided to stage a mass hunger strike on Sunday night to protest against the punishment by the Vice-Chancellor (VC). Meanwhile, the hunger strike of the punished students that includes the president, vice-president and joint secretary of JNUSU entered the ninth day on Sunday.
<b>"Long before the gherao, JNU V-C Prof BB Bhattacharya has had the agenda of ridding JNU of politics - and especially of leftist politics, and the punishments are part of that agenda,"</b> the JNUSU General Secretary Sandeep Singh said. He said that fact the JNU VC's vision is biased: biased in favour of AC classrooms and against scholarships for the needy; biased in favour of marble floors and against workers' minimum wages. Pointing out a speech made by Bhattacharya to the bankers in Chandigarh in October 2006, where he allegedly advocated the marginalisation of student politics, Sandeep said that the V-C's sole aim behind all these punishments is to end campus politics. "The spectre of Leftism is haunting the JNU V-C and he wants to ends this forever," he said.
A few days before the JNU V-C had called a press conference to clarify that the punishment to the 10 students was because of their protests against violation of worker's rights in the campus but because of their indecent and shameful behaviour with the registrar. The registrar was forced by the students to remain inside his car for more than six hours.
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