AAP welcomes UGC decision on highly questionable FYUP

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday welcomed the decision of the University Grants Commission to direct the Delhi University authorities to roll back its completely ‘unjustified’ and ‘highly questionable’ FYUP. The party also demanded apology from DU VC Dinesh Singh and former HRD Minister Kapil Sibal.

‘We are of the view that the FYUP should have never been implemented in the DU and former HRD minister Kapil Sibal and VC Dinesh Singh owe an apology to the academic and student communities for having imposed such a measure, without any unanimity,’ said AAP in a press statement. 

It also upheld the united protest of various stake holders of the university on the issue. 

The opposition to FYUP was a unique feature which had united the academic, student and political classes across the spectrum, barring the exception of the Congress party and its student and teachers wings. The FYUP rollback is a victory of the DU academic and student communities,’ added the statement. 

The AAP has been critical to FYUP and had promised to scrap it in its manifestos for the Delhi assembly and the Lok Sabha elections.

The party demanded that the apprehensions among the students who were enrolled for the FYUP last year and are currently pursuing their studies according to this programme, must be allayed and they need to be assured that none of their rights will be affected. Secondly, the students who have applied for admission to the DU colleges this year, need to be assured by the DU authorities that the scrapping of the FYUP will not affect their careers in any manner. 

The AAP also demanded that the DU authorities should immediately take the teachers and student representatives into confidence to ensure that there is no unnecessary panic at the very beginning of the fresh academic session and the decision to restore the three year undergraduate courses is implemented without any confusion.

Meanwhile, former DUSU president Ashish Sood has alleged that DU Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh 

had forcefully implemented his decision of FYUP just to please Kapil Sibal, former Union minister, and blamed the duo for the entire mess. 

Sood also demanded resignation of the VC on the issue calling his decision to implement FYUP, mindless and obstinate.