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-Shreya Sabharwal (shreyasabharwal27@gmail.com)
The Banaras Hindu University (BHU) campus witnessed violence by students who were lathicharged by the police, in an ugly turn of a protest against an alleged eve-teasing incident. Violence erupted after some students, protesting against the alleged eve-teasing incident, wanted to meet the vice-chancellor at his residence, according to the police and university sources.
The trigger was an incident in which a woman student of Arts Faculty alleged harassment by three men on a motorcycle inside the campus while she was returning to her hostel. The three men abused her and fled when she resisted their attempts, according to the complaint.
BHU issued a statement, saying the 'dharna' by the students just a day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit was "politically motivated" to malign the image of the university.
The university also said that security guards were regularly patrolling the campus and assistance from the police is sought from time-to-time to maintain peace in the campus. Senior officials including District Magistrate Yogeshwar Ram Mishra and SP (city) Dinesh Singh reached the campus along with a large posse of police.
The alumni of BHU feel : “The need of the hour is to have a vice chancellor whose work in the academic sphere is unchallengeable, who is above caste considerations, who will not surrender to unjustified political pressure, from whatsoever source it may, and last but not the least who has a firm belief in the ideals of Mahamana Madan Mohan Malaviya, the founder of BHU.”
BHU is facing severe security problem because of the large number of women students and the unchecked entry of unruly elements from the city late in the evening. As it is not possible for an academic VC to have effective control over law and order issues, there is need of a strong academic administrator (trained from the Administrative College, Hyderabad or an IIM) to be appointed to look after the administrative problems of this large university.
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