There were reports that a student was asked to meet the panel headed by the proctor, which reportedly took place on April 14 – Ambedkar Jayanti – at AUD’s Kashmere Gate campus.
AUD’s public relations officer has said that the student concerned was barred from entering the campus until the investigation is complete.
In a statement on Sunday, the Ambedkarwadi Students Forum (ASF) had claimed that the administration with the help of security guards “repeatedly tried to disrupt its programme” when they were celebrating Ambedkar Jayanti on the campus.
It also alleged that posters of Ambedkar, Savitribai and Jyotiba Phule, Periyar were “removed, torn and thrown in the dustbin”.
On Monday, the Forum staged a protest as it claimed that meetings with the AUD registrar and proctor yielded no response regarding the event which included an essay-writing competition, an illustrated biography exhibition, an anti-caste exhibition and other activities. came to light after Held.
The Birsa Ambedkar Phule Students’ Association (BAPSA), which was formed in November 2014 on Birsa Munda Jayanti and is active in Jawaharlal Nehru University, has extended its support to the ASF.
one in statement BAPSA referred to “two despicable incidents” that took place on the university campus on Monday.
“In one incident, posters with pictures of our Bahujan icons were torn by unknown persons and thrown in the dustbin. The cowards who do not have enough courage to face the views of our ideals are always engaged in activities like vandalizing their paintings, breaking their idols and tearing down their images,” said Bapsa.
“Another incident is a prejudicial act of removing posters from the notice board by the security personnel.”
(Edited by Tony Rae)
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