RGNUL students’ protest enters Day 3, govt seeks report

The assemblage was shut, until further orders, pursuing assemblage medication bid Monday.

The protesters alleged the assemblage medication had locked washrooms, cafeteria and drinking h2o facilities. Washrooms and drinking h2o facilities were opened aft they registered a protest, they said. The hostel mess, however, remained functional.

A protestation broke retired astatine RGNUL Sunday aft V-C conducted an “unannounced inspection” of girls’ hostels, including their rooms. Students besides accused the V-C of “passing casual and sexist remarks” connected women students clip and again, including connected their clothes, prime of career, and idiosyncratic activities, among others.

The V-C denied each charges.

Demanding the V-C’s contiguous resignation, the protesting students besides lodged a ailment with Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana HC Justice Sheel Nagu, the ex-officio chancellor of the university. A nine-member “special committee” constituted by the registrar had called students for talks Monday but the deadlock continued aft the students said they would lone speech to the V-C. The students demanded an “open meeting” with V-C.

On Tuesday, assemblage medication again invited students for talks astatine 5.30 p.m. but they refused, reiterating their request to lone talk with V-C.

Speaking with The Indian Express, respective students said the protestation was not conscionable a effect of Sunday’s hostel inspection, but “a culmination of galore incidents since Dr Singh took implicit arsenic the V-C successful March”.

Another pupil said the V-C often passes “rude and insensitive remarks connected immoderate students do. When we mislaid our 4 friends successful a roadworthy accident, helium was insensitive and blamed students for partying, saying ‘aur jaiye 9 p.m. ke baad baahar’.” Students alleged adjacent connected Teacher’s Day, the V-C accused women students of wearing “short clothes” adjacent though they were wearing accepted clothes.