Students at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) protested on Monday over various issues such as a hike in hostel fees and electricity charges. However, during their protests, they engaged in despicable behaviour that has potentially endangered the life of a professor. As per our sources, the ‘protests’ were backed by the Leftist student organization.
According to Vice-Chancellor Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, professor Umesh Kadam fell ill due to the protests and the students blocked the ambulance carrying Kadam.
#WATCH Students protested outside Inter Hostel Administration (IHA) meeting venue inside JNU over issues including hostel fee hike&electricity charges.According to Dean M. Jagadesh Kumar, a Professor Umesh Kadam fell ill due to protests&students blocked ambulance carrying Kadam https://t.co/g97wQTpNn1 pic.twitter.com/Y88kxq5bK3
— ANI (@ANI) October 28, 2019
In a statement on Twitter, Jagadesh Kumar slammed the ‘students’ and called their conduct ‘highly condemnable and outrageous’. The statement said that the students did not allow the ambulance to move towards the hospital. It said that the students displayed ‘complete heartlessness and insensitivity’ towards the professor who fell sick with high blood pressure.
The University administration is contemplating on a severe action against some JNU students whose conduct today has been not only unbecoming, but dangerous and shameful. This kind of behaviour by a section of JNU students is highly condemnable and outrageous. pic.twitter.com/sHNpecjktR
— Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar (@mamidala90) October 28, 2019
Even after the professor’s wife requested the students to make way for her husband, the students refused to budge and prevented the University security from shifting him to an appropriate hospital outside the campus. Instead, the ambulance was forced to the University Health Center and Professor Kadam was now confined to a doctor’s office while the students surrounded the health center.
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The statement also said, “The University administration is contemplating on a severe action against the students whose conduct today has been not only unbecoming, but dangerous and shameful. The University shall not be allowed to be held hostage to the whims of a small section of these agitating students and brook no indiscipine in the campus.”
As per VC Kumar, a meeting of the Inter Hostel Administration (IHA) was scheduled to be held today at 10 a.m. in the convention center of JNU when students who are not a part of the IHA forcibly entered the venue and disrupted the meeting. After they were requested to leave and let the meeting continue, the students started sloganeering following which Professor Kadam fell sick.
The committee members requested the agitating students to go out and let the meeting continue. However, due to their unruly behaviour and sloganeering, the Dean of Students Prof. Umesh Kadam fell sick with high blood pressure. pic.twitter.com/UNXxT84TBc
— Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar (@mamidala90) October 28, 2019
The ailing professor’s wife and child were inside the health center as well. However, the students weren’t allowing Professor Kadam to be shifted to an appropriate hospital outside. His ambulance was blocked while on its way to the health center.
Students blocking the Ambulance in which Dean of Students Prof. Umesh Kadam was being taken to the Health Centre in JNU. pic.twitter.com/4zz9apNEQ5
— Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar (@mamidala90) October 28, 2019
Unfortunately, such hooliganism has become the hallmark of college campuses dominated by the Left. Recently, Union Minister Babul Supriyo was manhandled by protesting Leftist students at Jadavpur University for merely entering the campus and attending an event. He was blocked from leaving afterward and the Governor of West Bengal himself had to travel to the campus to rescue Supriyo.
