Sagar Watch/ The matter of Vice Chancellor Professor Neelima Gupta garlanding the statue of Dr. Gour on Gour Jayanti while wearing shoes is gaining momentum. Resentment is increasing over the insult to Dr. Gaur.
On one hand, ABVP is running a signature campaign to pressurize the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar to apologize on this issue. On the other hand, BJP officials are also saying that BJP will pass the censure motion and send it to the Prime Minister and the Education Minister.
However, the university administration has also issued a letter of regret on behalf of the Vice Chancellor in this matter. But the agitators are adamant on apologizing. Along with this, he is also getting public support.
Now Vishwa Hindu Parishad has also jumped into this controversy. Its city president Kapil Swami registered his protest on Friday by placing an effigy of Vice Chancellor Prof. Neelima Gupta apologizing in front of the statue of Dr. Gour in the university campus. Swamy says that "the Vice Chancellor has insulted Dr. Sir Harisingh Gour by garlanding his statue while wearing shoes."
Swami says that when Vice Chancellor Neelima Gupta did not apologize in front of the statue of Dr. Gour even on the request of the city residents, he himself took the symbolic effigy of the Vice Chancellor apologizing and placed it in front of the statue of Dr. Gour.
BJP State Working Committee member Shailesh Kesharwani has emailed a complaint letter to the President and Prime Minister demanding action against the University's Vice Chancellor Prof. Neelima Gupta and Registrar in-charge Dr. SP Upadhyay. He demanded the removal of both of them from the post.
