Members of Students’ Federation of India (SFI) have given representations to their respective district officers in numerous districts and at just a few universities condemning September 5 suspension of three of their members by the proctor of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar College (BBAU), Lucknow, which, in line with them, is illegitimate as no causes have been cited by BBAU proctorial board for the motion.
Three BBAU students Abhishek Kumar, Vinod Kumar and Abdul Wahab have been suspended for establishing an admission help desk to help the newly admitted students. Whereas Abdul Wahab is an MA (political science) third semester pupil, Vinod Kumar is pursuing BA (public administration) and Abhishek Kumar is a pupil of diploma in yoga certificates course.
Abhishek Kumar was served an indefinite suspension order whereas Abdul Wahab and Vinod Kumar have been served an order by proctor Sanjay Kumar suspending them for seven days.
On Monday (September 18), BBAU proctor Sanjay Kumar issued a show-cause discover to Wahab asking him to submit his reply for his alleged misconduct and misbehaviour with the proctorial staff once they repeatedly requested him to take away the help desk from the college. Wahab has been given 7 days’ time to submit reply failing which the college will likely be compelled to take its future plan of action.
“On September 13 after the suspension interval of Abdul Wahab and Vinod Kumar ended and once they have been about to enter the college at round 10 am, they have been stopped simply exterior the gates. Each have been served one other suspension discover of 15 days and Abhishek has been served one other suspension “until additional order” as per the advice of the disciplinary committee of the college,” SFI members alleged.
The suspension discover was served with none prior info and has no point out of any purpose for the suspension of the three students. In line with SFI members, Vinod comes from a scheduled tribe neighborhood in Telangana and has allegedly been debarred from his hostel room. He has additionally allegedly been disallowed from coming into the campus.
“Vinod has been staying exterior for the previous many days and has no cash left now. He doesn’t know the native language and says his survival is tough if the brand new suspension shouldn’t be revoked,” the SFI members declare.
Vinod has written to the President of India, the Nationwide Fee for Scheduled Tribes and the tribal welfare minister of Telangana alongside with different college authorities just like the vice chancellor, registrar, SC/ST cell and chairman of the disciplinary committee about this problem and the ‘unlawful’ suspension he’s dealing with.
The SFI accused the BBAU proctor of arbitrarily suspending students and making them endure and mentally harassing them with out giving any purpose. SFI unit of BBAU demanded that the alleged unlawful and arbitrary suspensions be revoked with instant impact. It additionally demanded resignation of the proctor over the problem.
When contacted, BBAU spokesperson Rachna Gangwar mentioned: “The permission to arrange a help desk was given with a situation that no organisation, identify or image ought to be used. The students violated the situation.” The students had reportedly embellished the desk with a crimson star symbolising their affiliation with the SFI.
Proctor Sanjay Kumar mentioned the proctorial staff had suspended them for every week solely. “Later a disciplinary committee of the BBAU discovered proof that they have been engaged in actions that have been in opposition to the code of conduct,” a college official mentioned.
Madhur Garg of All India Democratic Girls’s Affiliation (AIDWA) additionally “blamed the proctor for unnecessarily harassing” SFI students with none causes and demanded his suspension.