Visva Bharati University students hold protest against sacking of professor

The protesting students blamed the VC for suspending students, evicting hostel inmates on flimsy charges and misconduct against certain faculty members and students.

Visva Bharati University students hold protest against sacking of professor

A section of Visva Bharati University students staged a protest demanding the immediate revoking of the sack order on senior professor Sudipta Bhattacharya. The protesting students blamed the VC for suspending students, evicting hostel inmates on flimsy charges and misconduct against certain faculty members and students.

While speaking to media persons, Somnath Sow said that "Bhattacharya a popular teacher was undemocratically sacked by Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty in the last week of December on charges of being involved in activities detrimental to the functioning of the central university for daring to protest against his vindictiveness against those who raised their voices against his actions in the past."

Sow also claimed that around 200students not belonging to any political organisation took part in a rally which went around the campus area vowing to continue the fight against the undemocratic VC and then began the sit-in.

Meanwhile, the varsity official said that "Bhattacharya had long been aiding and abetting a section of students to disrupt the academic atmosphere of the campus, to manhandle the vice-chancellor and leaking the minutes of confidential internal meetings to the media for his own interest. He had been showcaused at least twice in the past on those charges but he went on commiting the same acts and action was taken against him on disciplinary grounds."

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