[JAMIA IN THE PRESS] Vice-Chancellor Prof. Talat Ahamd gave an interview to the Times of India recently. In his interview he had something interesting to say about the students of Jamia in comparison to the students of JNU. Heres an excerpt from the interview: Times of India: It has been nearly nine years since Jamia conducted its students union elections? VC Prof. Talat: [...] From Jamias history, I realize we cannot have a normal election because it becomes a problem. We want to give students representation but the students need to be really serious about it and not become political pawns. We have students activism in JNU and nobody is misusing it. Here things have been misused and people are conscious about it. [...] *** For Jamia Journal this statement raises four questions: First: What is so abnormal about the students of Jamia, that we cannot conduct a normal election in this university? Second: In JNU, where students allegedly take student representation really serious, most candidates represent some political party through their student wing, such as NSUI, ABVP, SFI, AISA etc. Does that not make them political pawns as well? Third: Is it fair and justified to compare Jamia with JNU? And if yes it is, then should the comparison be only limited to students? And last but not least: What does it say about a university where the vice-chancellor of the university itself believes and has no compunction to tell it to the world in an press interview that the students of his university are not normal, and wished they were more like the students of another university? What do you think a statement like that does to the confidence and self-esteem of a student of that university?
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:25:04 +0000
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