Kadam, in the complaint, has named almost all the faculty of the centre and has alleged "humiliation, victimisation and casteist remarks by fellow colleagues".
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) crisis on Tuesday deepened further as the newly-appointed chairperson of the Centre for Historical Studies (CHS), Umesh Kadam, who was stopped from taking charge by the Left-leaning students recently, lodged a three-page complaint of caste-based discrimination with the SC Commission and PMO, including Ministry of Social Justice, Equal Opportunity Office and the Chancellor of the varsity.
Kadam, in the complaint, has named almost all the faculty of the centre and has alleged "humiliation, victimisation and casteist remarks by fellow colleagues".
However, Kadam's colleagues maintained their innocence in the matter. "We have not received the complaint as yet, but his allegations are baseless. We have never slighted him in any way. We ensured that his kids got admission in a good school, we solved his housing problem and the ones who he has accused are those who appointed him in the centre. We just wrote a letter to him asking him to not accept the position and stand with us in our principled fight against the autocracy unleashed by the administration," said one of the accused professors of the centre.
The JNUTA, on the other hand, had decided to march to the HRD ministry and the UGC as it would also approach President Ram Nath Kovind and ask for his direct intervention, a "good tradition to follow" as one of the teachers said.
Meanwhile, the Congress too on Tuesday joined the teachers' hunger strike against the removal of chairpersons and several other grievances with the administration, including the scrapping of gender sensitisation committee against sexual harassment and its replacement by the Internal Complaints Committee.
Congress MP Sushmita Dev, while promising the protesting teachers of the party's support, has also written to Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar, alleging that the administration was trying to shield Johri and demanded that the professor be removed from the campus.
"Professor Johri allegedly enjoys a favourable position in relation to the administration. There have been reports of sustained efforts to coerce the victims to withdraw the complaints. It is further alleged that the administration is already leaking information about the victims in a distorted manner and thereby defaming them," Dev said in the letter.
Dev also accused the JNU V-C of shielding the "predator" and "sexual offender".
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