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Why did you allow police on campus?
Renowned thinker and academician Noam Chomsky has questioned Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar’s decision to allow police on its campus in connection with the row over an event there against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
CHOMSKY TO JNU VC
New Delhi : Renowned thinker and academician Noam Chomsky has questioned Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar’s decision to allow police on its campus in connection with the row over an event there against the hanging of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
“Many of us remain very concerned about the crisis in JNU, which was apparently created and precipitated by the government and university administration with no credible evidence of any seditious activities on campus. Why did you allow the police on campus when it is clear that this was not legally required?” Chomsky queried in an e-mail on Sunday to the VC.
“I never invited the police to enter the campus and pick up our students. We only provided whatever cooperation was needed as per the law of the land. We were bound to do so,” the VC had said. The administration in its defence has been maintaining that “the university was bound to do so” even as it was contended by the protesting students and teachers that the matter related to indiscipline and not sedition.
Chomsky, along with Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and 86 other academicians from renowned universities abroad, had last week condemned “the culture of authoritarian menace that the present government in India has generated” and said those in power are replicating the dark times of the oppressive colonial period and of the Emergency of the 1970s.
