RSS persons threaten Sandeep Pandey on IIT-BHU campus
RSS persons threaten Sandeep Pandey on IIT-BHU campus
IIT-BHU has recently terminated contract of Sandeep Pandey on the charges of being a Naxalite
New Delhi. Terminated Visiting Faculty, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT, BHU, Varanasi Sandeep Pandey was threatened by RSS persons.
Sandeep Pandey told “Hastakshep”, “IIT-BHU has recently terminated my contract on the charges of being a Naxalite and being involved in anti-national activities. I've a month's notice and have time until 5 February, 2016 to wind up. Today, on 25 January, 2016, at 7:30 pm two people associated with RSS Ravi Singh, who works in an IT firm in Bengaluru and is a 2004 IIT-BHU alumni and Awdhesh Dubey, a Geophysics alumni, encountered me in the IIT guest house.”
Sandeep Pandey said, “Ravi Singh was especially aggressive and said I should not discuss questions like 'beef' in class.
I said I discussed the vegan philosophy and think students should be exposed to varied thought.
He said if I've to discuss such things I should do it outside the university and instead I should discuss about Indian culture in my class.
I said you cannot dictate a professor what he should or should not teach. Then he became more aggressive and started threatening me in a fascist way by saying I don’t have the freedom to decide what I’ll teach.
I told him that the course has been duly approved by the IIT authorities and if he has any problems with the ‘Development Studies’ course he should talk to the Director of the Institute.”
“I decided to lodge a complaint with the local Lanka Police Station against Ravi Singh and Awadhesh Dubey for threatening me. Ravi Singh is also going to lodge a counter-complaint against me”, added Sandeep Pandey.
