Angry over a fee hike, the student members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad gatecrash into the vice chancellor's residence.
In yet another incident of unruly student behaviour, leaders of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) assaulted the vice chancellor of the Gujarat University (GU), Parimal Trivedi, late on Wednesday evening.
The assault, according to the ABVP members, was in retaliation to the GU's decision to hike fees of self-financed seats in the university's post graduate (PG) courses. They said that no reason had been given for this hike, and the V-C was not agreeing to meet them on the issue, despite repeated attempts.
According to eye-witnesses, the ABVP members gatecrashed into the vice chancellor's residence and clung to his feet. They are reported to have said that until a solution is arrived at on the issue of the fee hike, they will not budge. Some student members are also alleged to have sat down on heaps of files and other material lying in the room, in a show of inappropriate behaviour. Even as the arguments between the V-C and the student leaders heated up, the security present at the V-C's bungalow called for the police.
The police intervention worsened the situation, and the livid students hit the V-C a couple of times in the abdomen, before being dragged away by the police. In the ensuing scuffle, the shirt of the V-C tore off.
The vice chancellor is learned to have filed a police complaint later on, and the students involved were arrested for the act. This has probably been the first time in the history of the Gujarat University, that an official of the stature of a vice chancellor has been physically manhandled. Condemning the incident, former deputy CM and member of the university's executive council, Narhari Amin, said that such behaviour was uncalled for. "This is an insult for a person of his rank. Whatever be the political affiliation, the dignity of the chair has to be respected,'' said Amin.
In a somewhat similar incident earlier, Prof KS Shastri's face was blackened by ABVP students, when he refused to meet their demands.
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