Lucknow: An assistant proctor of the Lucknow University (LU) was allegedly manhandled on Saturday when he tried to intervene in a face-off between two student groups — one comprising members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and another owing allegiance to the joint forum National Students Union of India and Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha .The incident took place outside social works department where the NSUI and SCS students were staging a protest against alleged bias of the LU administration in giving permission to student bodies to hold programmes on the campus. They said that LU denies permission to NSUI and SCS to hold academic discussions in the university, but allows ABVP to organise such events.
Protesting students pointed out that recently NSUI was not allowed to hold a discussion in which national level NSUI leaders were invited. However, they added, ABVP was allowed to hold an event in association with Krishna Devi Girl’s Degree College. A heated exchange ensued when proctorial board members asked protesting students to leave.Hearing arguments, ABVP students, who were participating in the event, came out of the hall and confronted NSUI-SCS members, The heated debate turned into a tussle. One of the assistant proctors tried to intervene to resolve the situation. In the melee, someone in the crowd manhandled him. Police had to step in to protect the assistant proctor. LU spokesperson Mukul Srivastava said, “The proctorial board engaged in dialogue and managed to control the situation peacefully.” When asked about manhandling of teacher, proctor Rakesh Dwivedi and spokesperson refused to comment.
