JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s presence at a teachers protest outside UGC office against the new norms to ascertain their performance has left a group of DU faculty members miffed.
JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s presence at a teachers protest outside UGC office against the new norms to ascertain their performance has left a group of DU faculty members miffed.
Members of various teachers’ associations were protesting at the UGC office on Monday while consultations were on with officials inside when Mr Kumar landed up there to show solidarity with the agitating teachers. However, he was not allowed to speak by a group of right-wing teachers who were vehemently opposed by a group of Left-wing teachers present at the protest. The fight later spilled over to social media with Delhi University Teachers’ Association (Duta) president Nandita Narain claiming that Mr Kumar was “heckled” and “humiliated” and that in future they have to face her first before reaching to the student leader. “It is most unfortunate that the JNUSU president who had come to express his solidarity to the teachers’ struggle, was heckled and humiliated by a handful of people,” Ms Narain said in a Facebook post.
However, Abhishek Tandon, a DU faculty, posted that it is better to adopt the UGC amendment than to take support from Kumar. “All of us should unanimously condemn the presence of anti-nationals at the forum,” he said.
