DU urges teachers to end strike for students' sake
New Delhi, June 8: The Delhi University on Friday urged the striking teachers to come back to work and start evaluating exam sheets in interest of the students.
In a meeting conducted on Friday, several deans and college principals expressed "serious concern" at the strike, fearing that this may lead to delay in declaration of results of thousands of under-graduate students.
"... it is appealed to all teachers concerned, in the larger interest of the career of students, to immediately join the process of evaluation work at their respective evaluation centres and evaluate answer-scripts," the varsity said in a statement.
Hundreds of Delhi University teachers are on strike since last month to demand that ad hoc teachers be made permanent and colleges not be not allowed to go 'autonomous' - as offered under a scheme by the Human Resource Development Ministry.
Teachers are opposing autonomy, saying that this will provide a pretext to increase fees and make higher education out of bounds for poor students.
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Devendra Fadnavis plays video of Islamic scholar at Pune rally, harps on 'vote jihad'
Pune, Nov 16: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis continued to raise the pitch on "vote jihad" by playing a video of Islamic scholar Sajjad Nomani at a poll rally in Pune's Bhosari area on Saturday.
It is being said that a person who votes for the BJP must be ostracised, Fadnavis claimed.
"If these people are trying to do vote jihad, if they are saying they will destabilise the government through vote jihad, then you will also have to do dharmayudh of votes," Fadnavis said.
"If these people dream that they will come to power with the help of votes from one community in the land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, then you will also have to come to the battlefield," he said in a swipe at the MVA.
