The Delhi University had recently set up a committee to look into the matter of ‘mass failure’ of final-year commerce students from various colleges, and yet, officials at the varsity claimed that on Monday, they were besieged and mistreated with by the protesting students. It is noteworthy that the body of protesting body constituted of both current and former DU Students’ Union members.
The rise of agitation is accredited to the failure of a grand number of B.Com students due to incapability to score the minimum of 40% marks in practicals for the subject of Computer Science.
Led by the former DUSU president Satender Awana and the present DUSU president Amit Tanwar (from ABVP), it is being alleged that about 50 students marched into the university conference centre at around 12 in the noon and started with the misbehaving, as per the DU officials. There are some rumors that they even “broke some items in the Proctor’s office”. A DU official explained, “They started around lunch time. They abused administrative officials. They climbed on the rooftop and threatened that if students are not given enough marks to pass, they would jump. They gheraoed the Proctor’s office and wouldn’t let the Dean of Students’ Welfare out. He managed to get out with help from police, but Awana and others occupied the Proctor’s office, and refused to leave.”
To these claims made by the DU officials, Awana denied ruefully, saying the protest had been with utter non-violence. He claimed,“When only the affected students came, they were sent back and forth by officials, who behaved aggressively with them. That is when we intervened. We have been protesting very democratically. The administration involved around 200 police personnel. Even when the Dean was being taken away, we didn’t attempt to stop him,” continuing to say that “Five college principals have written to DU saying they had not been given a notice that students had to score 40 per cent in both practical and theory exams to pass.”
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