JNU asks Prof to clarify remarks against Dalit and Muslim teachers

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.