Education minister Partha Chatterjee told a press conference here that the students’ demand for
punishment of those involved in the alleged sexual harassment of a girl student in the campus had taken a backseat as their agitation now appeared to be influenced by ‘outside forces with a political motive’.
‘I am saying with utmost modesty that the politics of gherao in educational institutions is not desirable. It would be accepted under no circumstances. If anyone is aggrieved against the equally dissatisfied (university) authority, the process of redressal should remain restrained,’ Chatterjee said.
He pointed out that he was not saying this in the wake of the JU university impasse, but had been saying this right from the day he had taken over as education minister.
The minister said members of the internal complaint committee set up by the university to probe the alleged sexual harassment of the girl met him on Thursday and gave a written report.
‘The women teachers who were heckled have given me in writing, but the students are yet to give anything in writing,’ he said regretting that it (student’s stir in campus) was taking place one after another. ‘Their only method (of agitation) is to resort to gherao and lie down (to block the entry of university officials),’ Chatterjee said.
He said that as the chief minister had instructed to constitute a probe committee, the VC had been requested to form the committee on the basis of an FIR that the aggrieved girl had filed in the Jadavpur police station.
punishment of those involved in the alleged sexual harassment of a girl student in the campus had taken a backseat as their agitation now appeared to be influenced by ‘outside forces with a political motive’.
‘I am saying with utmost modesty that the politics of gherao in educational institutions is not desirable. It would be accepted under no circumstances. If anyone is aggrieved against the equally dissatisfied (university) authority, the process of redressal should remain restrained,’ Chatterjee said.
He pointed out that he was not saying this in the wake of the JU university impasse, but had been saying this right from the day he had taken over as education minister.
The minister said members of the internal complaint committee set up by the university to probe the alleged sexual harassment of the girl met him on Thursday and gave a written report.
‘The women teachers who were heckled have given me in writing, but the students are yet to give anything in writing,’ he said regretting that it (student’s stir in campus) was taking place one after another. ‘Their only method (of agitation) is to resort to gherao and lie down (to block the entry of university officials),’ Chatterjee said.
He said that as the chief minister had instructed to constitute a probe committee, the VC had been requested to form the committee on the basis of an FIR that the aggrieved girl had filed in the Jadavpur police station.