Criticising the deployment of heavy security outside the venue of the seminar, Pandey asked, "How can the Vice Chancellor deploy the entire security force of the Varsity at the event? What were they afraid of?"
Events at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) took an ugly turn on Monday when scores of students staged a protest to call off the seminar "Ek Bharat Abhiyan-Kashmir ki aur" organised by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), BJP student-wing, along with Youth for Panun Kashmir, an organisation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits in which several right-wing activists took part.
"How can a university allow members of Hindutva terrorist organisations that have been involved in engineering caste and communal riots, bomb blasts and most recently the assassination of rationalist Narendra Dabholkar to address a seminar at its premises," said students' union president Mohit Pandey.
Criticising the deployment of heavy security outside the venue of the seminar, Pandey asked, "How can the Vice Chancellor deploy the entire security force of the Varsity at the event? What were they afraid of?"
Addressing a seminar, that took place amid the protest, Tapan Gosh, founder of Hindu Samhiti, a right wing organisation said, "if Islamic forces will take over Kashmir, it will create many more Kashmirs in India where Hindus will become minority", exhorting Kashmiri Pandits to reclaim their lands which they left behind during their exodus from the Valley.
"Having managed to organise an event like this where we can discuss the issues of Kashmiri Pandits at this campus where anti-national slogans were raised by some separatist students on February 9th 2016, is a huge victory for us and ABVP," he added.
On February 9, 2016, anti-national slogans were allegedly raised during a function at the varsity campus. The issue had culminated in the arrest of student leader Kanhaiya Kumar along with two other students.
Calling JNU a "den of separatist", the organisers of the event asked why the students' bodies at the campus never extend their support for the cause of Kashmiri Pandits. "Why JNU never extends its support for the issue of Kashmiri Pandits while the students' bodies here are so sympathetic for the cause of Kashmiri Muslims," asks Abhay Vartak, the spokesperson of Sanatan Sanstha, a right-wing group.
"If we will follow the path of nonviolence, we will lose our families, culture and everything," said Hariram Mishra, a Sanskrit professor at JNU.
"How can the Vice Chancellor allow such people who call the university a den of separatist address at our campus premises?" asked Pandey, adding the entire JNU students fraternity highly condemn such events in the campus.
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