Press Release, 31.10.2012

The DU V-C and University Administration cut a sorry figure when, despite petty machinations to prevent the DUTA and assembled students and karamcharis from holding their Joint Protest and burning his effigy, the DUTA not only succeeded in doing so, but it also ensured that the situation did not become violent or get out of hand.

The V-C had called in the entire security and police to prevent the DUTA from organizing the Protest. The university security stole the head of the V-C’s effigy and tried to snatch away the remaining effigy. Security personnel breached the law in front of mute police constables when they tried to forcibly disperse the human chain, formed by teachers and students, around the effigy. The resilient protesters did not budge and the DUTA assembled another effigy in no time and burnt it with accompanying slogans condemning the V-C who was labelled as a “Rockstar Feudal V-C.”

The DUTA, karamcharis, as well as the strong turn-out of students who had assembled in support of the DUTA strongly condemn the meanness of the V-C and appeals to the public at large that the undeserving V-C, who has stooped to such low levels to confront teachers and students of the University, has lost the moral right to continue in office. The DUTA also slams his sly attempt to sow seeds of division and break the Unity of teachers and students. This unity is natural, considering the havoc his unilateral and authoritarian functioning has wreaked within the University fraternity. Teachers and students sang songs of protest and voiced their feeling of alienation against the V-C and the Administration. DUTA Executive will meet to review the ongoing Indefinite Relay Hunger Strike on Saturday, November 3, 2012 and chalk out the further action programme.

S.D. Siddiqui, Secretary                                                      Amar Deo Sharma, President