[Marxistindia] Sack JNU Vice Chancellor

[news from the cpi(m)]

January 6, 2020

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

 

Sack JNU Vice Chancellor

 

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) strongly condemns the brutal attack on the
students and teaching faculty of Jawaharlal Nehru University by outsiders on
January 5.

 

Armed masked men entered the JNU campus in the presence of a big contingent
of the Delhi Police and for three hours went on a rampage inside the campus
entering the girls' hostels and beating up students. JNU Students Union
President Aishe Ghosh was grievously injured in the attack and was admitted
along with 20 students and teachers at the AIIMS trauma centre.

 

It is inexplicable that the Vice Chancellor and the university authorities
allowed outsiders to go on rampage for hours before asking for police
intervention. This also came after Delhi Lt. Governor directed the Police to
maintain law and order and punish the culprits.

 

The Vice Chancellor who has been instrumental in systematically undermining
and dismantling the country's premier university had permitted this rampage
to go on unchecked for hours. The Vice Chancellor should be sacked for this
complicity in permitting this attack. 

 

The President of India as the Visitor of the University must immediately
sack the Vice Chancellor and ensure that normalcy prevails in the campus. 

 

Unlike what the Union Home Minister sought to portray as a clash between two
groups, the video recordings of this rampage, that have gone viral, and the
screen shots of WhatsApp groups like  "Unite Against the Left" clearly show
that this attack was preplanned and executed with the full knowledge of the
authorities.  From the slogans that these outsiders were shouting, it is
clear that they are part of the RSS-BJP. These goons must be punished
forthwith.

 

 

(Hari Singh Kang)

For CPI(M) Central Committee office

 

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