New Delhi, A campus-wide class boycott at Ambedkar College Delhi’s Kashmere Gate campus on Monday has triggered conflicting claims from the College students’ Council and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, with each scholar our bodies presenting contrasting photos of the day’s developments.
Ambedkar College Delhi sees diverging narratives on class boycott
There was no response out there from the varsity over the difficulty.
In an official assertion, the Ambedkar College Delhi College students’ Council declared the boycott an “overwhelming success,” stating that 20 out of 27 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes noticed a complete shutdown of lectures.
“With a sense of pride, we declare the campus-strike as an overwhelming success,” the assertion stated, including that analysis students from 16 programmes had additionally prolonged help.
The strike, AUDSC stated, was backed by resolutions handed by way of Common Physique Conferences held throughout faculties and programmes final week.
These conferences additionally condemned what the council described because the “high-handed attitude” of the college administration, citing scholar suspensions, closure of the primary gate and administrative actions towards college.
As a part of the protest, college students marked a “Cultural Day of Solidarity” with collective singing, mural portray, and discussions on what they known as the “deteriorating condition” of the college.
The council additionally criticised the administration for not holding a dialogue regardless of prior discover. “It is regrettable that a meeting did not take place to discuss the issues,” the assertion famous.
Countering the claims, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s AUD unit issued its personal assertion asserting that the boycott name was largely rejected by the scholar physique.
“Academic activities continued smoothly with enthusiastic participation from students across all departments,” it stated.
ABVP AUD President Anubhav Pandey termed the strike “politically driven” and praised college students for prioritising lecturers. “This is a resounding victory for student welfare, academic integrity and nationalism,” he stated.
The AUDSC had cited a number of considerations together with the suspension of 5 college students, alleged violence towards scholar representatives, barricading on campus, restrictive curfew timings, closure of the primary gate, a show-cause discover to affiliate professor Dr Kaustav Banerjee and the disabling of the scholar mail chain.