[Marxistindia] On HCU Suspension of Two Professors

[news from the cpi(m)]

June 15, 2016

 

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) strongly condemns
the suspension of two professors from the Hyderabad Central University on
charges of supporting the students' protest in the ongoing agitation in the
university following the tragic suicide of Rohith Vemula. 

 

Professors K Y Ratnam and Tataghata Sengupta tried to stop the brutal police
lathicharge against the students when the Vice Chancellor had ordered police
entry into the campus to break up the student agitation.

 

A case was filed against the Vice Chancellor Appa Rao for abetting the
suicide of Rohith Vemula. Cases were also filed with the Commission for
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes. Instead of proceeding against the Vice
Chancellor and the other officials who created the circumstances for the
tragic suicide of Rohith Vemula, the university administration has now
turned the case against those who have already been victims of the
vindictive attitude.

 

The Vice Chancellor had got cases registered against the professors and the
Telangana government sent them to jail. That they were jailed for nine days
is now being used as a pretext by the Vice Chancellor to suspend them. The
state government of Telangana continues to favour the Vice Chancellor who is
acting at the behest of the Union HRD Minister rather than proceed on the
criminal cases filed against the Vice Chancellor.

 

The Polit Bureau of the CPI(M) reiterates that the Vice Chancellor should be
immediately removed and the Central Government intervene to ensure
restoration of normalcy in the campus of this Central University. The
Telangana state government should immediately proceed on the criminal cases
filed against the Vice Chancellor and the others for abetting the suicide of
Rohith Vemula.

 

 

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