Last Update: February 02, 2023, 12:57 IST
The CM had said that Visva Bharati students were not getting a chance to study for not toeing the line of the university (Representational image).
During her tour of Birbhum district, Banerjee said the disciplinary action taken against the students and the professor was undemocratic and unnecessary.
Visva-Bharati University on Wednesday defended its disciplinary action against seven students and a professor, a day after the Chief Minister of West Bengal. Mamata Banerjee Condemned attempts to “bulldoze the democratic opposition” in the institution. During her tour of Birbhum district on Tuesday, Banerjee said the disciplinary action taken against the students and the professor was “undemocratic and unnecessary”.
Responding to the comment, Visva-Bharati spokesperson Mahua Banerjee said in a statement, “The Chief Minister has come to the conclusion that a teacher has been suspended which is wrong because the said teacher approached the court after the university recommended punishment against him.” Have turned And the matter is sub-judice. He did not even bother to check that the court had asked the two suspended students to apologize and they refused and hence were not allowed to appear for the exam.”
“Another student has offered an apology and all action against him has been waived. The five students are yet to apologise, while the PhD female researcher has been researching for six years without any definite results. The CM has not done justice to Visva Bharati’s cause or to the real situation by calling all of them victims,” the statement said.
The CM had said that students are not getting a chance to study for not following the line of the university. She said she met seven suspended students and realized they were victims, and a professor was dismissed from service while a research scholar was not allowed to complete his PhD. He said that “atrocities were taking place in various forms in the respected institution” and called upon everyone to drown their differences and come together to “save” the university founded by Rabindranath Tagore.
Responding to the university’s statement, state Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya told PTI that the CM is rightly standing by the students and faculty members, who are bearing the brunt of Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty’s “vendetta politics”.
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