The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) condemned the violence at the Cauvery Hostel mess on Sunday over alleged serving of chicken for dinner on Ram Navami and sought the intervention of the Vice-Chancellor in the matter. In a statement issued late Sunday night, JNUTA said that it will ascertain the full sequence and factual details of events and report back to the campus community.
“JNUTA expresses its outrage at any attempt to impose the food preferences of any group on others. The use of violence as a means to punish difference has no place within the university community,” read the statement. The safety of the students and the staff working for the university must be ensured to the fullest,” the JNU Vice Chancellor and His team as well as the security forces should personally intervene to end this violence immediately and affirm the principles of pluralism and celebrate differences for this university.”
in video | Violence in JNU over non-veg food
Two groups of students clashed with each other over alleged non-vegetarian food being served in a mess at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Kaveri hostel on Sunday.
Six students were injured in the violence. Several purported videos of violence surfaced on social media, including one showing a student, Akhtarista Ansari, bleeding from her head. Officials have not confirmed the authenticity of the video.
The JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) on Sunday alleged that members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) stopped the mess vendor from supplying chicken and attacked the vendor in the afternoon. The right-wing ABVP, however, denied the allegation and claimed that the Left had disrupted a puja program organized at the hostel on Ram Navami. Both sides accused each other of pelting stones and injuring their members.
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