Ajit Pawar implores govt to act on filming of ‘obscene rap’ inside SPPU campus

“The video which shows the rapper sitting in the Vice Chancellor’s chair in the senate hall with a bottle of liquor and weapon on the table has gone viral on social media. This incident is condemnable and something that adversely affects the reputation of the university,” said Pawar in the letter sent to CM Shinde, DCM Fadnavis as well as Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil.

SPPU, meanwhile, said on Thursday that its inquiry committee will be headed by retired IPS officer Jayant Umranikar and submit its report within a month.

Pune police have already booked rap artist Shubham Jadhav, who is also known as ‘rocKsun’ and hails from Karad in Satara district, after the university administration approached it with a complaint of trespassing and using obscene language in the song. The police have clarified that there is no involvement of any caste-linked, religious, or political angle in the case, and that it has been registered solely for the use of obscene words in the song, which includes footage from the SPPU.

In his letter, Pawar said that SPPU has a rich history and the video of the rapper singing a song replete with obscenity has shocked the conscience of the state.

Pawar said that although a police complaint has been lodged with Chatrushringi Police and the administration has announced an inquiry committee, it’s important that the state government also springs into action.

“The government should summon the probe reports from the police and the inquiry panel and take stringent action against those who are found responsible for this incident and ensure that such incidents don’t happen in any university or educational institution,” demanded Pawar.

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The rapper, Jadhav, is popular in the Marathi hip-hop circuit. The issue was initially brought up by Akshay Patil, a leader of the student wing of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), who clarified that the objection was not to the song itself but to the fact that the SPPU administration allowed a detailed shoot for the “obscenity-filled song” to take place within its auditoriums and meeting rooms.