Violence as technique of ‘punishing distinction’ has no place in varsity: JNUTA on conflict between college students 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) has condemned the violence that erupted within the Kaveri hostel mess on Sunday allegedly over serving of rooster at meal time on Ram Navami, and demanded that the vice-chancellor intervene within the matter.

In an announcement issued late Sunday evening, the JNUTA stated it can verify the complete sequence of occasions and the factual particulars and report again to the campus neighborhood.

“JNUTA expresses its outrage at any effort to impose the food preferences of any group over others. The use of violence as a means of punishing difference has no place within a university community,” learn the assertion.

The security of scholars and the employees who work for the college needs to be totally ensured, it stated.

“The JNU Vice Chancellor and her team, as well as the security forces, must personally intervene to end this violence immediately and to reaffirm the principles of pluralism and celebration of difference that this university stands for,” they stated.

On Sunday, two teams of scholars clashed on the Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Kaveri Hostel allegedly over serving of non-vegetarian meals on Ram Navami within the mess.

Six college students had been injured within the violence.

Several purported movies of the violence surfaced on social media, with one them exhibiting a pupil, Akhtarista Ansari, bleeding from the pinnacle.

Officials haven’t confirmed the authenticity of the movies.

The JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) on Sunday, alleged that Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members stopped the mess vendor from supplying rooster to the mess and attacked the seller within the afternoon.

However, the right-wing ABVP denied the cost and claimed that Leftists obstructed a puja programme organised on the hostel on Ram Navami.

Both sides accused one another of pelting stones and injuring their members.