JNU Alumni Association Condemns Attack on Diwyanand Dev
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — In a shocking incident, a professor of Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University in Bihar was brutally assaulted while delivering lecture in the classroom.
Assistant Professor Diwyanand Dev, working in the PG Department of the university, was on March 26 attacked by a group of 30 students. They dragged him out of the classroom and thrashed him mercilessly.
Professor Diwyanand is an alumnus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
It is alleged that the attackers were led by student leaders belonging to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Ang Kranti Sena which is prime accused in this incident.
An FIR against the culprits has been lodged in Bhagalpur but so far no action has been taken by the police, says Shubham Shree, a JNU alumnus, in Bhagalpur.
The JNU Alumni Association, Bihar Chapter, has called on the JNU fraternity worldwide to condemn violence on teachers and stand in solidarity with Diwyanand.
Former JNU students union president and a sitting MLA in Bihar, Shakeel Khan, has said that “irrespective of one’s political affiliation one should come forward and condemn in the strongest terms such attacks on the teaching community. Violence in any form is unacceptable. I stand in solidarity and demand strong action against the perpetrators of the violence.”
The Bihar Chapter of the JNU Alumni Association, which has taken up the case of Prof. Divyanand, is an active group whose participants are keenly involved in the process of bringing social and political change in Bihar. They keep a close eye on the changes taking place around them and resolve to contribute to the best of their ability for the development and benefit of the common man in Bihar. Reduction of the chasm between privileged and unprivileged, curtailment of privileges of the political elites and equitable distribution of power is the core agenda of the Bihar Chapter of JNU alumni association.
