Imphal, May 29 2009: Condoling the deathof Prof Md Islamuddin, Manipur Students' Association Delhi (MSAD) has categorically observed that killing of Prof Islamuddin at the very campus of Manipur University represents a severe lack of spirit of engagement when it comes to the question of disagreement and contestation and it shatters the condition of free speech and fair dialogue on any issue involved in the contestation.

In a statement, president of MSAD O Sandhyarani Chanu said that the killing of Prof Islamuddin is not right for two reasons.

Explaining the first reason, Sandhyarani said University is considered as the symbol and site of serious engagement with every ideas, thoughts and imagination no matter the intensity of disagreement and contestation among them and the outcome should always be of something that renders an effort to learn the spirit to listen and opine.

For the second reason, the MSAD president said that what accounts for the 'fatal' mistakes of the Professor, whatever may it be, cannot be undone or permanently rigged out of the messy and intricate system of the University and its working through his being physically eliminated.

The killing was seriously flawed and ill conceived, it added.