Sunday, February 21, 2010
'No Maoists in Osmania University'
Osmania University's Vice-Chancellor Tirupati Rao on Sunday said there were no Maoists on the university campus. The statement comes on the heels of the government's claim that "Maoist elements" had entered the university to take advantage of the ongoing agitation for Telangana.
The Supreme Court Bench, in its brief order, directed the Home Secretary to ensure that the forces were deployed on and outside the campus strictly under his supervision and none of the authorities should misbehave with the students.
IMO: This seems to be state intervention in a university in an undoubtedly complex situation. A teenager died on Saturday and is being termed a martyr to Telegana. Local campus police are often enough to deter this kind of thing, and in some countries campus cops will even hold off oppressive local cops with some axe to grind for their local superiors. It is bad for Congress that it has muddled things to allow another death already, as Congress must now bear some part of the blame. It would be better if Congress assured such matters never happened than instead brooding about the past. Obviously I do not know if there is a naxalite involvement but it is the sort of situation that would encourage it.
The Supreme Court Bench, in its brief order, directed the Home Secretary to ensure that the forces were deployed on and outside the campus strictly under his supervision and none of the authorities should misbehave with the students.
IMO: This seems to be state intervention in a university in an undoubtedly complex situation. A teenager died on Saturday and is being termed a martyr to Telegana. Local campus police are often enough to deter this kind of thing, and in some countries campus cops will even hold off oppressive local cops with some axe to grind for their local superiors. It is bad for Congress that it has muddled things to allow another death already, as Congress must now bear some part of the blame. It would be better if Congress assured such matters never happened than instead brooding about the past. Obviously I do not know if there is a naxalite involvement but it is the sort of situation that would encourage it.
# posted by uv : 1:29 PM
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