LUCKNOW: Anna Hazare's visit to Lucknow might have been cancelled. But, the conflict between Lucknow University (LU) administration and teachers continues. With LU administration changing his statements every day, university teachers on Thursday demanded that university administration stick to one reason for rejecting their request to allot Malviya Hall for organising an interaction between Hazare and students on May 1.
On Thursday, Lucknow University Teachers Association (LUTA) president and secretary met LU vice-chancellor (V-C) Prof MK Mishra. The V-C asked LUTA office-bearers whether their decision to invite Anna was passed by LUTA's executive committee or not. He also raised objections as to why he was not informed about the entire programme.
On this, LUTA secretary, RB Singh clarified that LUTA president and secretary hold enough powers to take any such decision. He, however, said that the above decision was duly passed by the committee. "Our programme with Anna was not fixed. Once everything was put in place, we would have invited him. But, he turned down our first request by not allotting Malviya Hall," said Singh claiming that V-C denied permission under political pressure.
University spokesperson Prof SK Dwivedi told TOI that LUTA admitted their mistake of not initially informing the V-C of the entire programme. "They must have first consulted V-C and then moved ahead with their schedule, if he permitted," said Dwivedi denying allegations of political pressure on V-C.
Interestingly, LU administration has been consistently changing its statement. While rejecting allotment of Malviya Hall for the LUTA function on Monday, it had said that the V-C wants to avoid getting into a controversy, which may arise due to Anna's meeting. On Tuesday, it cited reports of local intelligence unit stating that Anna's visit might disturb the annual examinations currently underway. However, when district administration denied about any such intelligence report, LU spokesperson on Wednesday clarified that V-C had not at all permitted LUTA to organise the function at Malviya Hall.
The university spokesperson also said that V-C is the patron of LUTA and so its their responsibility to inform the V-C before organising any function.
There were also reports that the V-C was summoned by the governor, who is the chancellor of the state universities in connection with controversy over denying LUTA to hold Anna's public meeting on the campus. However, senior officers in the Raj Bhawan denied reports of governor's intervention.
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