JNU PhD scholar does not shake hands with Vice Chacellor at convocation in protest
Anoop Patel, who was awarded PhD for his study India's Reservation Policy and South Africa's Affirmative Action, attended the convocation ceremony but refused to shake hands with VC Kumar on stage.
Published: 08th August 2018 09:29 PM | Last Updated: 08th August 2018 09:29 PM | A+A A-
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NEW DELHI: A JNU student today did not shake hands with Vice-Chancellor M Jagadish Kumar at the convocation ceremony in protest against, what he termed as, his "role in negating the idea of the varsity being an inclusive campus".
Anoop Patel, who did a comparative study on India's Reservation Policy and South Africa's Affirmative Action for his doctorate, attended the convocation ceremony but when Kumar acknowledged him and wanted to shake hands, he did not reciprocate.
"The way the image of JNU has gone down, the VC has a huge role to play in it. The decisions, policies which are enacted by the Vice-Chancellor are against the inclusive, democratic, progressive and secular credentials of our JNU," he later claimed.
Patel also claimed that when he refused to shake hands with the VC, JNU Chancellor VK Saraswat, who was the chief guest at the convocation, asked him, "I hope you will shake hands with me."
"I told Saraswat sir, 'I will definitely shake hands with you," he said. JNU had hosted its second convocation today, 46 years after the first.
