MP: ABVP Workers Call Professor “Anti-National”, Professor Apologizes By Falling At Their Feet
In a video that is of the government college of postgraduate studies at Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, a senior professor of the college is seen apologizing by touching feet of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) workers after they threatened him with a police complaint.
Professor’s Gandhigiri
The man in the video, Professor Dinesh Gupta was taking a class when ABVP workers were going towards the principal’s office to submit a memorandum against the delay in the announcement of the fourth semester (Science) results. ABVP workers were sloganeering at that time. It was then Professor Gupta came out of his class and allegedly asked them to stop shouting slogans as it was becoming difficult to teach.
As reported by Indian Express, this enraged the protestors who then alleged that Gupta was stopping them from saying “Vande Mataram” and “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”. They termed him anti-national and allegedly threatened him with a police complaint, even pressurizing him to apologize. When the workers refused to relent, the professor chose the path of Gandhigiri. The video shows him asking them to first stand in a line, after which he started apologizing by falling at their feet. In the end, a fellow faculty pacified the teacher.
“I only want students to study & progress”
While speaking to media, Gupta said, “They are not students, they only engage in politics. Students kept calling me anti-national so I bowed down to them. I only want students to study and progress in their lives. I am not thinking about any action,” as reported by News18. The professor took leave after the incident.
Reacting on the issue, ABVP national executive member Ankit Garg said, “Whatever the senior faculty member did was an outcome of anger and irritation which he could have avoided,” adding that the ABVP workers should have not disrupted the classes.
Mandsaur MLA Yashpal Sisodiya said that the ABVP workers did not ask the professor to apologize but he fell at their feet on his own. He also added that he is looking into the case and if proven guilty he would ask them to apologize to the professor.
The Logical Indian take
This is not the first time that the ABVP workers have created a ruckus in a campus. Just a few months back, in a horrific and shameful incident, members of the ABVP assaulted a professor University in Gujarat, blackened his face and paraded him in the college for an alleged discrepancy in the university electoral rolls. Last year too, in protest of inviting Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid at an event held at the Ramjas college, ABVP workers locked down the seminar hall and pelted stones at students.
Those who harass teachers are no less than goons who believe that they can threaten, assault and humiliate anybody and even get away with it. Their confidence is not misplaced though, given that these incidents are a common occurrence. Are the authorities so tied down that they can’t even protect their students’ and teachers’ dignity?
Madhya Pradesh September 27th, 2018
In a video that is of the government college of postgraduate studies at Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, a senior professor of the college is seen apologizing by touching feet of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) workers after they threatened him with a police complaint.
Professor Gupta came out of his class and allegedly asked them to stop shouting slogans as it was becoming difficult to teach. This enraged the protestors, who termed him anti-national and allegedly threatened him with a police complaint, even pressurizing him to apologize. The video shows him asking them to first stand in a line, after which he started apologizing by falling at their feet.
This is not the first time that the ABVP workers have created a ruckus in a campus. Just a few months back, in a horrific and shameful incident, members of the ABVP assaulted a professor University in Gujarat, blackened his face and paraded him in the college.
Last year too, ABVP workers locked down the seminar hall and pelted stones at students.
Those who harass teachers are no less than goons who believe that they can threaten, assault and humiliate anybody and even get away with it. Their confidence is not misplaced though, given that these incidents are a common occurrence. The Logical Indian
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The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) in its “India: Annual Report on Torture 2019” released on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture stated that a total of 1,731 persons died in custody during 2019 i.e. deaths of about five persons daily. These included 1,606 deaths in judicial custody and 125 deaths in police custody.
Torture is perpetrated to extract confession or bribes and torture methods used in 2019 included hammering iron nails in the body (Bihar), applying roller on legs and burning (Jammu & Kashmir), ‘falanga’ wherein the soles of the feet are beaten (Kerala), stretching legs apart in opposite side (Kerala), hitting in private parts (Haryana), electric shock (Punjab and Uttar Pradesh), pouring petrol in private parts (Uttar Pradesh), applying chilly power in private parts (Kerala) beating while being hand-cuffed (Kerala), pricking needle into body (3-Year-old minor in Tamil Nadu), branding with hot iron rod (3-Year-old minor in Tamil Nadu), beating after stripping (Haryana and Assam), urinating in mouth (Uttar Pradesh), inserting hard blunt object into anus (Bihar), beating after hanging upside down with hands and legs tied (Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh), forcing to perform oral sex (Gujarat), pressing finger nails with pliers (Assam), beating with iron rods after victim is suspended between two tables with both hands and legs tied (Madhya Pradesh), forced to do Murga pose or stress position (Haryana), and kicking in belly of pregnant woman (Assam).
Indian police officers in the town of Nagina chased a group of Muslim teenagers into an empty house. They grabbed them and took them to a makeshift jail. And then, the boys and community leaders said, the officers tortured them.
Four of the boys, who ranged in age from 13 to 17, said that police officers used wooden canes to beat them and threatened to kill them.
Indian Police officers over the course of 30 hours terrorized them.
According to two of the boys, the officers laughed during beatings, saying, “You will die in this prison.”
More accounts are emerging of abuse meted out by police officers.
Almost all the violence has been directed toward Muslim residents. More people — at least 19 — have been killed!
Witnesses said that police officers opened fire on demonstrators with live ammunition, broke into houses and stole money, and threatened to rape women.
Police officers were encouraged by their superiors to kill protesters.
The Indian police have become a lynch mob! Inidan police officers having been given the green light by senior officials to use harsh measures against Muslims.
A 20-year-old Dalit man was allegedly burnt alive over his relationship with a woman from another caste, the killing causing his mother to die of shock.
The victim was beaten up, kept hostage in a house and set ablaze.
Locals rushed to the spot on hearing his cries and took him to a local hospital. He was referred to a Lucknow hospital but succumbed to injuries on the way.
India : Hyderabad : Andhra Pradesh Telangana2018-09-20
A father attacked his 20-year-old daughter and her newlywed husband in the heart of the city on Wednesday, chopping off her left forearm and slashing her jaw. The incident comes days after a Dalit youth was mercilessly murdered in front his pregnant wife in Nalgonda district.
Police said the father was upset over the inter-caste marriage — the woman an OBC (Other Backward Class), her husband, B Sandeep (22), a Dalit. Sandeep and Madhavi Chary, in a relationship for five years, secretly got married on September 12, despite stiff opposition from her father.
Madhavi was left with a 12-inch gash on her neck and jawline and her left forearm barely hung by the skin. She was in a 10-hour surgery at the time of going to print. Sandeep, in another hospital, received 10 stitches to close the deep wound at the angle of his mouth; the attending doctors said he was in deep shock.
