‘LOVE GURU’ SUSPENDED
A senior Hindi professor at Patna University has been suspended in connection with a “dance fest” held in his classroom last year.
PATNA: A senior Hindi professor at Patna University has been suspended in connection with a “dance fest” held in his classroom last year.
Incidentally, this was not the first time Hindi department head Matuk na th Choud ha ry faced penal action at the hands of the varsity administration. He was earlier suspended in 2006 for entering into a live-in relationship with a student, an incident that earned him the sobriquet “love guru” on the ucampus and prompted his estranged wife to drag him to court.
The professor was reinstated by Raj Bhawan in 2011, over fiveand-a-half years after his suspension and subsequent dismissal. However, the chancellor of universities was again instrumental in suspending him a second time after students handed over a CD of the dance event, organised during class hours on October 6 last year, to university authorities.
Sources said the chancellor’s office communicated the suspension order to university vicechancellor YC Simhadri, who wasted no time in complying.
Choudhary remained defiant, claiming that he had been framed by the university management. “I have done nothing wrong… dance is the message of my life. Yes, dance did happen, but that is not the only reason for my suspension. There is more to it than what meets the eye. I have been framed for not kowtowing to the vice-chancellor,” he said.
“We do organise dance events, and this happened a long time ago. If some people have circulated the CD, they have only done my job of spreading the message of love,” the professor added.
However, university proctor and registrar BK Polai termed holding a dance programme inside the classroom – with teachers gyrating to music while holding girl students by the hand – as unacceptable. “Raj Bhawan had written to us in this regard long ago, but due to a change of guard at the registrar’s office, the letter could not be traced. Once the vicechancellor came to know about it, he called for prompt action,” said Palai.