: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union was on Tuesday pulled up by the Registrar for allegedly disrupting a meeting related to an admission policy at the university.
The union members were0 protesting outside a Standing Committee meeting as a part of the ongoing hunger strike being organised on the campus against a notification of the University Grants Commission that seeks to change the admission criteria for M.Phil and Ph.D courses.
‘Violent behaviour ‘
“By their violent behaviour, a group of about 50 JNU students are damaging the future of thousands of socially and economically poor students,” JNU Registrar Pramod Kumar said.
Mr. Kumar added that the students concerned had gone against the university’s ethos of free and frank discussion and resorted to violent means to push their demands.
The students, however, said they had only shouted slogans and not resorted to any violent means.
They said the meeting had to be adjourned after the protests as the detailed agenda had not been sent before to the members.
Students determined
Meanwhile, the general secretary of the union, Satarupa Chakraborty, congratulated the students for putting up the resistance.
She added that the students had to ensure that the university’s admission policy was not tampered with and that the UGC gazette was rolled back.
