At the Rajiv Gandhi National Law University (RGNUL) in Patiala, a dispute is intensifying between the administration and students over alleged comments made by the vice-chancellor on the attire of female students. The protest by hundreds of students in front of VC Residence started at 3:00 pm on Sunday and continued throughout the night and throughout the day on Monday. According to all social media posts on Wednesday, students at the university were still agitating against the government. Meanwhile, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi took to Twitter to express her support for the students.
Priyanka Gandhi tweeted that the vice-chancellor of the Rajiv Gandhi Law University in Patiala suddenly entered the rooms of female students without informing them to check their rooms and made indecent remarks about their attire. Speech, this is extremely shameful. The students were extremely disgusted by something the media said. Girls have the ability to decide what they eat, wear, and choose classes. The abuse of power, moral policing and invasion of a girl’s privacy is unacceptable. The Women’s Commission should take this matter seriously and take strict action against the Vice-Chancellor.
It is worth noting that on Sunday night, all students came to the gate of the university to strike indefinitely. The students are adamant about the vice-chancellor’s resignation and the university administration has formed a committee. On Monday at 2:00 pm, the committee held a meeting of students in the conference hall of the Administration Building and asked them to register complaints, but the students refused to come before the committee. Students said there are no student representatives on the nine-member committee, only faculty, so they will not speak to the committee.
On the other hand, there was a request for the Vice-Chancellor to come before everyone and talk to all students on an open platform. Late on Monday night, protesting students wrote to the Chief Justice of India and the Bar Council, asking them to intervene in the matter and shut down the university indefinitely. At the same time, students refused to leave the university and go home, and all students sat in front of the university to strike. They said the vice-chancellor had a long history of using dirty words and abusive language toward students. At the same time, when he came to the girls’ dormitory on Sunday, there were no female teachers, and he had crossed all boundaries of privacy. girls. Although the university administration has closed the campus indefinitely, students insist they will not leave until the president resigns.
Know the reason for the riot
The female student said that the VC came unexpectedly for inspection. He arrived at the female dormitory and entered the female students’ rooms for inspection without informing them or obtaining their permission. The VC also allegedly made indecent remarks about the female students’ clothing. Professor VC has denied the allegations. Jai Shankar Singh told the media that he had visited the women’s hostel. He received a lot of complaints from there. Some female students complained about smoking and drinking after midnight in the dormitories. He said he went there to identify such female students.
