ABVP knocks on High Court’s doors

ABVP had given a memorandum to both the University authorities and DUTA earlier this month. “On April 6, DUTA was given a memorandum and on April 11 the university. Neither of the two responded to the memorandums positively. This has forced the ABVP to move the court,” says Jugal Wadhwa, the ABVP lawyer.

The petition has been filed on behalf of the ABVP by Rajneesh Jindal, secretary of the organisation. According to them, the teachers have acted in an irresponsible manner and this is the first time that they have taken such a drastic step.

They have further alleged that university officials have been “silent spectators” in the entire episode. “The teachers have not kept the interests of the students in mind and are not performing their duty. Despite repeated pleas from the ministry and University officials, they have been adamant on the issue,” clarifies Wadhwa.

ABVP has also protested against the repeated threats by the office bearers of DUTA that they will not do any evaluation work. “We want some disciplinary action to be taken against the teachers if they do not rejoin duty at the earliest,” Wadhwa adds.

“Students have already faced a lot of hardship this year, what with the teachers going on a month long strike last year. We have had to go to private tutors, spend a lot of money and somehow manage. Despite all that we are ready to give the examinations and the teachers are being unfair,” says an ABVP member.

DUTA had threatened to go on a boycott two months back. Despite repeated pleas from the Human Resource Development minister Murli Manohar Joshi and Vice-Chancellor V R Mehta, the agitating teachers have not called off the boycott. In fact, the Vice-Chancellor sent his umpteenth appeal to the teachers to call off the stir in the interest of the students today.