After a scholar of Ambedkar University was fined Rs 5,000 for allegedly making “obnoxious remarks” about Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the course of the college’s on-line convocation, Sisodia has directed that the scholar The penalty must be repealed.
Neha, a ultimate semester scholar of MA Performance Studies, was issued a effective on June 30, which she needed to pay to seem in her ultimate exams.
During the net convocation, she had posted feedback on YouTube reside streaming hyperlinks to protest towards AUD’s admission coverage, which included payment hike and alleged discrimination towards SC/ST college students. While the proctor’s order mentioned she used “derogatory/distasteful remarks,” she says she was singled out and was one among a dozen different college students who had been a part of the net protest.
Sisodia on Monday wrote to the Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Delhi, asking him to make sure that the effective is quashed and no motion is taken towards him.
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Kejriwal authorities will be certain that the effective towards the scholar is canceled and no motion is taken towards him
“No scholar must be penalized for exercising the correct to freedom of expression.
The matter ought to have been dropped at our discover earlier than initiating any motion”- Deputy Chief Minister @msisodia pic.twitter.com/9slnKY1OiE
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“First of all, no action should be taken against any student for expressing a different point of view from the Government or the University, unless the said statement harms the social fabric of our country or is against our constitutional values Second, since the student was expressing her opinion against the government, as is being reported in the media, the matter should have been brought to our notice before initiating any action against her,” he also wrote that the principal secretary to all No such action should be taken against students in universities under Delhi Government for expressing their opinion “until they harm the social cloth of our nation or go towards the constitutional values” “.
He wrote concerning the significance of free speech in universities.
“No student should be penalized for exercising his right to freedom of expression within the University. Students are the future of our country and if we do not give them the opportunity to criticize, comment and develop their voice, we prepare our country for a bleak future where people do not dare to stand up against injustice. If voices cannot express criticism and dissent against political leaders in our country, we are no longer a democracy but a dictatorship,” he wrote.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
