Central University of Kerala vice-chancellor’s participation in a leadership orientation program, organised by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, has triggered a controversy in the university.
The Central University of Kerala has warned its faculty members from making "provocative statements" that are "anti-national" in nature and "against the country’s interests."
A number of academics have signed a statement in unequivocal support of a Kerala Central University professor who is being targeted by the right wing after he referred to Sangh parivar as proto-fascist in one of his lectures.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Ministry of Human Resource Development sent letters to the Vice Chancellor of Central University of Kerala to conduct a probe against Professor Gilbert Sebastian who has been targeted by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) -- the students' wing of the RSS -- for calling the RSS a proto-fascist organisation during his class.
Akhil attempted to kill himself on Tuesday 9th October 2018 . "I can not tell you the pain and neglect I am suffering from here. I do not forget the faces of the university authorities who have hurt me so much
The student hunt in the Central University of Kerala continues with the unreasonable arrest of Ganthoti Nagaraju, a Dalit Ph.D. scholar and an active member of Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) on exaggerated and false charges.