The institute, increasingly seen to be supporting the BJP dispensation, has suspended a PhD scholar from a Dalit community and asked law enforcement agencies to launch an investigation against him for participating in a protest against the NEP.
Mumbai: For the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, participating in protests for a better education policy, being critical of the government, having political views contrary to the establishment or forming a student group on campus are all ‘anti-national’ activities.
The institute, better known as TISS, has suspended a PhD scholar and asked law enforcement agencies to launch an investigation against him for participating in a protest organised in Delhi early this year.
In a letter dated April 18, the TISS administration noted the suspension of Ramadas Prini Sivanandan, a PhD scholar from the Development Studies department at the Mumbai campus of TISS. He has also been debarred from entering any of TISS’s campuses for that period.
Sivanandan belongs to a Dalit community, is an active student leader from Kerala’s Wayanad and also a Central Executive Committee member of the leftwing Students’ Federation of India. He is also the joint secretary of its Maharashtra state committee and was a former general secretary of the Progressive Students’ Forum (PSF), a students’ collective at TISS.
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