Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) MP Anil Desai on Thursday gave zero-hour notice in the upper house of Parliament on the issue of casteist remarks found written on the walls of Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi: Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) MP Anil Desai on Thursday gave zero-hour notice in the upper house of Parliament on the issue of casteist remarks found written on the walls of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
The matter pertains to the December 2 incident where the School of International Studies (SIS) walls and JNU were defaced with โanti-brahminโ slogans. After the walls and faculty rooms of the Jawaharlal Nehru University were defaced with anti-brahmin slogans by some unknown elements, JNU Vice Chancellor SD Pandit on December 13 said that a few โoutsidersโ did it and condemned the entire incident. She said โit was the first time such casteist slogans were used on the campus walls.โ
โJNU is known for celebrating the cultural diversity of the country. All Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel are from JNU. So JNU canโt be anti-national. Few outsiders did it. Itโs the first time such casteist slogans were used,โ said JNU VC SD Pandit.
She said that it is a mischief created before university elections for teachers and Assembly elections.
โThose 2-3 outsiders came with ulterior motives knowing that whatever happens in JNU gets publicized. It was mischief created before university elections for teachers and Assembly elections,โ said JNU VC SD Pandit.
JNUSU in a statement said that it condemns any such acts that purposefully attack any community to encourage any form of disharmony or disturbance of the peaceful environment of the campus.
However, it added that political art and wall postering are an โintegral part of the political cultureโ of the university.
โWe have never witnessed the same to have been employed for hateful purposes under the garb of anonymity. The JNU Administration must take cognisance of such slogans and take the requisite strict action according to the statutes of the university,โ it said.
The Students Union also said it is only a โcertain group within the campusโ that โrepeatedly attemptedโ to vitiate the campus environment in order to maintain an atmosphere of insecurity on the campus.
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Stating that the โprogressiveโ student movement of JNU has never defined social justice as contingent upon the โoutright expulsion of any particular group from society,โ the student union accused the โright-wing forces to have tried historically to caricature claimsโ to social justice in a deplorable manner โwith the exclusionary CAA-NRC-NPR being the latest of their attempts at so-called justiceโ.
โThe JNUSU reiterates its strong condemnation of the present and past acts of vandalism and urges the JNU Administration to conduct a time-bound free and fair inquiry to ensure peace and normalcy on the campus,โ it said.
The Dean of the School of International Studies and Grievances Committee has been asked to inquire and submit a report to the VC at the earliest.
โJNU stands for inclusion and equality. The VC reiterates zero tolerance for any violence on campus,โ the notice said.
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