Policemen stand guard as security men check the identity cards of students arriving at the Hyderabad University in Hyderabad. (AP Photo)
The appointment of an academician – who allegedly has links with the ABVP, BJP and RSS – to the Executive Council of University of Hyderabad has turned into a controversy with student unions alleging what they term the saffronisation of the Executive Council. The appointment of Dr O Srinivas Reddy was made by President Pranab Mukherjee on February 8 in his capacity as the Visitor of the University of Hyderabad.
Dr Reddy is the chairman of Jagruti Group of Institutions which include half a dozen engineering and science colleges. He is also an active member of sports associations in Hyderabad including chess, badminton and karate. Dr Reddy was president of ABVP of the Greater Hyderabad Unit from 1990 to 1991. He is also the chairman of Saraswathi Vidya Nilayam at Suryapet which is run on RSS principles. He also serves as a member of the AP Consumers Association, and an advisor to the Osmania University Old Students Association.
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The appointment of Dr Reddy, at a time when the protest over the suicide of Rohith Vemula continues at the University of Hyderabad, has angered a section of the students. “The BJP at (the) Centre is playing games with students’ lives. What does it mean to appoint a person with political leanings to the executive council?” a member of the Students JAC for Social Justice said.
“We do not want politicians in our committees and constituted bodies. This kind of appointments curb academic freedom,” a statement said, condemning the appointment.
After Dalit scholar Vemula committed suicide on January 17, the Students JAC has been demanding the resignation of vice-chancellor Prof P Appa Rao accusing him of taking action against five students including Rohith at the behest of the Union Human Resource and Development Ministry. The JAC is also accusing the Centre of trying to promote right wing sympathisers in the university.
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- Feb 9, 2016 at 10:10 amSure those who are opposing are not real students but Cong./Aaaptatd/Left lickers who have been controlling these unions since long. They were put there not for study but for advancing their political ideas otherwise how could they have any problem with these appointment if they only have study aim in their mind. One can see JNU where almost every Union is full of such roughs who are always ready tocome out for agitation whenever their masters just wink. Shame on such students.Reply
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- Feb 9, 2016 at 8:46 amIts not about the left or the right. We the student community doesn't support either of them. You keep the politics but we want educational reforms and policies so that we don't lose more students in the name of discrimination. 'social boycott', really !!!!,In this time. Just image what a 25year old would feel when he/she is socially boycotted. Disgrace man. I mean this is an intense fight for social justice. We don't want politics here.Reply
- Feb 9, 2016 at 1:27 pmAn elected Government is competent to make nomination to the council.what is wrong with it? Students have no say in it.Reply
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