[Marxistindia] Withdraw UGC Advisory Forthwith

[news from the cpi(m)]

November 18, 2022

Press Statement

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

Withdraw UGC Advisory Forthwith

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly rejects
the UGC chairperson, M. Jagdish Kumar's letter to all Governors to
"encourage" universities in their states to hold lectures on themes such as
the "ideal king" in Indian philosophy, as well as, 'Khap Panchayats' and
their "democratic traditions" to celebrate India as the "mother of
democracy" on Constitution day on November, 26. 

This is in direct contravention of the framework of our Constitution, as
well as, statutory provisions of the UGC Act as enacted by the Parliament.
UGC has planned 90 lectures in 90 universities across the country. 

The UGC chairperson's ridiculous claim is that ancient India was unique
because there was no autocracy or aristocratism. It is unbecoming of the UGC
chairperson to make such an assertion which is a negation of the reality of
Varnashram and the caste based social hierarchy that is a major challenge in
the evolution of our modern democracy. 

The UGC chairperson negates the Constitutional requirement of democratic
consultation with the elected state governments in the sphere of higher
education and has directly approached the unelected RSS-BJP appointed
governors to pursue this agenda. This exposes the real objective of the
National Education Policy of using education as an instrument for destroying
scientific temper and rationality while undermining the foundations of our
Constitution.

The PB urges all democratic organizations and individuals to join in
demanding the immediate stoppage of this exercise.

 

 

Muralidharan

[For CPI(M) Central Committee Office]

 

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