JNUSU refuses to vacate office after receiving eviction notice

NEW DELHI: In a new row, Jawaharlal Nehru University Student's Union (JNUSU) on Wednesday staged a protest against the University administration asked the union to evict its office on the premises.

A statement by JNU condemned the decision made by the authorities and said,

“The university administration is seeming to forget time and again that the university spaces are for the students and not for their own personal use. The administration has notified that the Union office room in Teflas will no longer be accessible to the office-bearers and has decided to lock it. This is nothing but a continuation of the policies of Modi 1.0.”

They alleged that the authorities are “destroying the rights and voice of the students.”

“This year the administration did not take Rs. 15 as union fee from students. The admin was clear from day one to destroy students rights and voice. Be it the agenda of disrupting and interfering in JNUSU electoral process, getting election results stayed, not letting the union function, not calling them for statutory mandated committees and now wants to lock 8,500 students voice. All these measures was on their list for a long time,” said the students union statement.

Earlier on Tuesday, the eviction notice was sent from the office of the Dean of Students Umesh Ashok Kadam that read, “To prevent misuse of property, it is decided by the competent authority of the University that the said room shall be locked immediately and the same may be handed over to the JNUSU after notification of the same.”

During the protest JNUSU burnt the eviction notice calling it a “bundle of lies”.

“It says that the previous union and the current union are ‘not notified' and refuses to recognise them, but the Delhi High Court has already given its sanction to the union,” it said.