DSU swearing-in event at CU: UDSF seeks action against violation of rules

The United Democratic Students’ Front (UDSF) has filed a ailment with P. Raveendran, Vice-Chancellor (V-C), Calicut University (CU), seeking enactment against the alleged usurpation of rules and administrative failures during the oath-taking ceremonial for recently elected Departmental Students’ Union (DSU) functionaries connected December 18. The lawsuit was called disconnected soon aft the V-C objected to definite lines successful the oath rendered by T.V. Amardev, chairperson-designate, and Students Federation of India (SFI) leader.

In the complaint, UDSF president Alan Jacob and convener Faizal Thadathil said that the chairperson-designate wanted to instrumentality the oath successful the sanction of the “martyrs who mislaid their lives successful the struggles for the instauration of a caller satellite order”. That was a usurpation of the assemblage rules and existing laws. The effort was to “politicise” a “democratically elected students’ union” during the swearing-in ceremony, which was against the “democratic legacy” of the university. The UDSF leaders besides alleged that an apprehension warrant was pending against Mr. Amardev for attacking Kerala Students’ Union activists during the DSU predetermination held connected the campus. His information successful the lawsuit itself was a superior lapse, they alleged.

The UDSF leaders demanded that Mr. Amardev should not beryllium allowed to instrumentality oath successful presumption of the lawsuit pending against him. If the ceremonial has to beryllium held, the oath taking should beryllium successful the authoritative format, they said, urging the authorities to pass constabulary astir the circumstances starring to Mr. Amardev’s information successful the event. At the aforesaid time, sources successful the V-C’s bureau said that the national functionaries had been informed good successful beforehand astir the authoritative format of the oath.

Meanwhile, SFI leaders connected the field said that Mr. Amardev has filed an anticipatory bail exertion successful the court, which is expected to beryllium taken up successful the coming days. They besides claimed that the constabulary lawsuit against him is politically motivated.