The Tata Institute of Social Sciences has asked its students to refrain from organising protest or taking part in any demonstration against the Ram mandir Inauguration ceremony on January 22. The institution has warned its students of legal proceedings by respective enforcement agencies if they don’t comply with the directive. However, the TISS students union was reported as saying that no protest is being organised in the campus.
On January 18, the TISS released an official notice and underlined that the administration had learnt about plans to stage a protest by few students in the old or new campus of the institute, against the pran pratishtha ceremony of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on January 22.
“We strictly warn students not to participate in any such activities or demonstrations, failing which the law-enforcing agency will take necessary action against students found indulging in such activities,” the official notice in this regard was reported as saying by news agency PTI.
In an official statement though, the TISS students union denied any such plans of staging a demonstration by any recognised or independent student body. The students union also demanded immediate withdrawal of the notice from the administration and a clarification of the same.
Notably, the stage is all set for the grand inauguration ceremony of the newly built Ram Mandir in Ayodhya on January 22. On the occasion, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), will be holding programmes such as the inauguration of a ‘gaushala’ (cow shelter) and recitation of a poem ‘Geet Ramayan,’ based on the epic Ramayan, penned by noted Marathi poet D Madgulkar on its campus, to mark the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha ceremony.
However, the organisation of events at IIT Bombay has also drawn criticism from the Ambedkar Phule Periyar Study Circle (APPSC), a left-leaning students outfit at IIT Bombay. “A line of events being carried out by the @iitbbombay administration shows it has started crawling in front of Hindutva political forces, giving up the principle of secularism in the Indian Constitution,” the APPSC IIT-B said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
(With inputs from PTI)
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