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Business News/ Education / News/  FTII students await I&B ministry’s response, as stir enters fourth day
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FTII students await I&B ministry’s response, as stir enters fourth day

FTII students' association has alleged that Gajendra Chauhan has no vision and stature to merit his posting

Students slammed the centre for trying to ‘undermine’ FTII’s autonomy by making ‘partisan appointments.’Premium
Students slammed the centre for trying to ‘undermine’ FTII’s autonomy by making ‘partisan appointments.’

Pune: The information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry is yet to respond to the Film and Television Institute of India’s (FTII) students about the of removal of TV actor and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of its governing council even as their strike entered the fourth day today.

“We have written to the I&B Ministry about our demands. There is no response as yet," FTII students’ association president Harishankar Nachimuthu said. Asked about the content of the letter sent to the ministry, he said, “We will wait till a reply is received" but asserted the strike will continue till the demand is met. Meanwhile, “Swaraj Abhiyan" leader Yogendra Yadav, who was here to address a farmers’ meeting against the land bill, also visited the institute to support the students “just demands".

Yadav alleged that the Narendra Modi-led government does not understand the word “autonomy" and this is not the first institution where “autonomy is being eroded". “It is not mere a question of saffronization, the real question is of degradation of all institutions where people without necessary qualification are being appointed," Yadav said.

This is an assault on the finest institution of the country which is not in the interest of the nation, he added. Yadav claimed that the earlier government also did the same thing, but the present government has “hit the rock bottom." Among film personalities to pledge support to the agitation was documentary-maker Anand Patwardhan, who visited the campus and said he was “glad that students stood up against increasing politicization of institutions by current government. I know what is happening throughout the country and I am not surprised by this trend," he said.

The FTII students’ association has alleged that the newly-appinted Chauhan, who played “Yudhishthir" in the popular TV serial “Mahabharat," does not have “vision and stature" of his eminent predecessors to merit his posting by the government. The protesting students had on Sunday said that they don’t need Modi’s “puppet". The students had slammed the centre for trying to “undermine" FTII’s autonomy by making “partisan appointments". “Mr Modi we don’t want your puppet", read one of the posters put up at the FTII gate on Sunday.

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Published: 15 Jun 2015, 03:29 PM IST
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