JNUSU Asks PM Modi To Not Inaugurate Vivekananda Statue, Instead Hold VC Accountable

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a life-sized statue of Swami Vivekananda on the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus on Thursday evening. Barely few hours before that the JNU Students’ Union (JNUSU) wrote a letter to the PM and asked him not to inaugurate the statue and instead hold the Vice-Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar accountable for ‘his failures and mismanagement’.

“We see your decision to accept the invitation for the event today as a token of your support for the actions of the JNU vice-chancellor over the last four years,” the JNUSU representatives Aishe Ghosh, Saket Moon, Satish Chandra Yadav and Md Danish said in an open letter to PM Modi, reported EdexLive.

“We believe that the Prime Minister of the country requires one to listen to the critics as well. You have many a time stated that criticism is like a treasure which you would cherish. Hence, we would like to apprise you of the situation in JNU, caused majorly by the actions of your government and the Vice-Chancellor who has been placed by it,” the letter read.

The letter listed the administrative and structural changes that took place under Vice-Chancellor Jagadesh Kumar since 2016. The list included the dissolving of GSCASH, students being accused of sedition, the disappearance of Najeeb Ahmed, cutting down MPhil and PhD seats, the proposal for a 300 per cent fee hike, the alleged library fund cut and recruitment scam allegation, according to the website.