MUSU negates Chief Minister's appeal word for word-II
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 29 2018:
The Chief Minister has been exaggerating on the alleged ill-treatment of Prof K Yugindro when he came to take charge of VC on September 20 along with Prof Shyamkesho and the CM was claiming that there is a video clips of how Prof Yugindro was ill-treated.
If there is a video recording, the same should be placed in public domain, MUSU demanded.
The claim that Prof Yugindro was manhandled is completely wrong.
Prof Yugindro and students talked inside a room for almost three hours but using the term 'forceful confinement' is another exaggeration.
The students talked with Prof Yugindro because the way he was appointed Pro-VC by Prof Pandey who was then on leave contravened rules, MUSU explained.
Regarding the Chief Minister's question whether Prof Yugindro and Prof Shyamkesho are not sons of Manipur, MUSU clarified that the agitation to remove Prof Pandey was not about replacing him with a Manipuri.
The agitation was invited by his irregularities and misgovernance.
In his efforts to exonerate the massive raid carried out by police at MU hostels and quarters in the night of September 20, the CM mentioned three crimes� first, arson at the office of the Assistant Director, Sports, second, the 14-points agreement and third, ill-treatment of Prof Yugindro.
and his team.
If these three incidents are seen as crimes, there will be no action in the world which would not be counted as crimes.
Nobody knows who set ablaze the office of the Assistant Director.
If the students should be blamed for the same, then everyone including the CM can be blamed.
The understanding reached between students and Prof Yugindro cannot be counted as crime from any perspective.
The CM was also asking the reason for the strike being undertaken by MU teachers and staff but MU teachers had submitted a memorandum to the CM on May 18, well before the strike began appealing for a thorough enquiry against Prof Pandey.
But it appears that the CM did not read the memorandum, MUSU lamented.
Again, the CM was asking why the MU community is adamant on appointing one of their chosen men as the VC but the MU never ever demanded to replace Prof Pandey with one of their chosen men.
On the contrary, it is BJP/RSS which is stubbornly scheming to either retain Prof Pandey or appoint one of his proxies/agents as the VC of MU, MUSU asserted.
The MU community will not raise any objection when any individual is appointed as VC in-charge as per rules.
With regard to the State Government's decision to carry out a massive raid inside MU campus in the dead of night rather than during day time, MUSU questioned the Chief Minister's SOP (Standard Operating Protocol) .
Reacting to the CM's assertion that miscreants/criminals should be arrested at night, MUSU asked whether N Biren sees MU teachers and students as miscreants/criminals.
Talking about the shooting of a VC and a Registrar on the legs and the killing of a Professor by an insurgent group about 10 years back, the Chief Minister was trying to justify the brutal police crackdown in MU.
The CM should understand that these criminal acts were committed by an insurgent group, not by teachers or students.
Even though the CM claimed that the MU teachers and students were arrested based on an FIR lodged by Prof Yugindro, the Professor said that he only appended his signature on a piece of paper and gave names of some teachers.
In reality, the FIR was lodged by the CM, not by Prof Yugindro, MUSU alleged.
It also demanded immediate removal of Prof Yugindro and Prof Shyamkesho from their respective posts and a judicial enquiry into the atrocities committed by police inside MU campus in the midnight of September 20 .
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