Journalism lecturer shunted under ABVP pressure
January 30, 2010 |12:48 | Others By : Team X
Succumbing to pressure from Hindutava affiliated groups, the Mangalore University shunted out a journalism lecturer on the charge of being controversial. ABVP had backed a protest by some students of the Mass Communication department demanding Umeshchandra's ouster. He has been stripped of his lecturer's post.
The decision was taken at a meeting presided by University acting vice-chancellor K K Achar. Mangalore Member of Parliament Nalin Kumar Kateel of the BJP had asked the University authorities to order a probe into allegations that Umeshchandra was making anti-Brahmin remarks.
ABVP has alleged that Umeshchandra often attacked Sangh Parivar organisations and expressed extreme Dalit views. Umeshchandra said students had been misled by political forces. "I hold no grudge against them since they have been misled by some political forces" he said.Hindutava outfits which are active in the coastal belt had earlier targeted Pattabiram Somayaji, lecturer of English , for attacking those indulging in moral policing in the region. Somayaji is a member of f the Karnataka Koumu Souharda Vedike (Karnataka Communal Harmony Forum). ABVP students had demanded action against him for taking on Hindutava organisation.
Somayaji was one of the few who openly attacked Sri Rama Sena and Bajrang Dal for the attack on women at a pub last year. Police had arrested Sena Chief Pramod Muthalik and others in connection with the dastardly pub attack.
He said Hindutava outfits were dividing the region along communal lines.Minority organisations have said that the coastal belt has been rocked by attacks on churches and minorities ever since the BJP came to power in the state.
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ananda kamat
February 3, 2010 |20:11
Umeshchandre is basically pervert with serious mental sickness. It is utterly wrong to say that Umeshchandra has bee shunted out because of the Sangh Parivar. where was umeshchandra when Somayaji was being harassed by ABVP. If fact he was busy trying to get stories published against universities who were consistently opposed to communalism. It was wrong on the part of the students to include in their petition two allegations that were related to his criticism of Sangh Parivar. He had become vocal about sangh parivar only after vijaya karnataka published a story about him. His anti-sangh parivar stand began from there. When ABVP was carrying on a campaign againt those opposed to communalism Umeshchandra never uttered a work. He was in fact getting vicarious pleasure from all this. When the same newspaper was attacking the secular minded teachers he was trying to feed false information against them to the same newspaper. Mr. Seetharam of Canara Times has been publishing lies about Umeshchandra. It is a matter of shame that people like Umeshchandra are teachers in the university.
A severe punishment is necessary to teach him how to behave in the class. All thow with whom he does not agree become bastards for him including Gandhi.
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