JNU has asked Professor Amita Singh who heads the varsity’s Centre of Law and Governance to clarify her alleged remarks calling Dalits and Muslim teachers “anti-national” after the National Commission for Scheduled Caste sent a show-cause notice to the university.
Singh had made the alleged comments in an interview to a web portal.
“I have been asked by the university to send my clarification till tomorrow (Tuesday),” Singh said during a press conference. Maintaining that she has been quoted out of context in the interview, Singh came down heavily on a section of teachers alleging that they have been supporting the “anti-national” activities on campus.
The NCSC had on March 8 sent a letter sent to JNU Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar asking him to respond with action taken against the said professor. A communication was also sent to Delhi Police Commissioner urging him to register a criminal complaint.
The faculty member talks about “anti-national” activities in JNU, the family background of Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid.