JNU Vice Chancellor Shantishree D Pandit. (file photo)
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Jagran correspondent, New Delhi. Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Vice-Chancellor Shantishree D Pandit issued a clarification amid the controversy over her recent remarks regarding Dalits and blacks, saying that her statement was taken out of context for political purposes.
The Vice Chancellor said that a large number of teachers have supported him and alleged that the JNU Teachers Association and the Students' Union are affecting the healthy tradition of deliberations on the campus through selective presentation. He had said that no community can progress by maintaining a permanent victim mentality, to which student organizations strongly objected.
The Vice Chancellor clarified that his statement was not against any community but was a comment on identity politics. She said that she is in favor of equality and does not support discrimination or punishment against anyone on the basis of birth-based identity.
Citing Bhimrao Ambedkar, he said that he too was not in favor of unequal laws. The Vice-Chancellor said the entire podcast is approximately 55 minutes long and the controversial portion is a short excerpt from the end, which was wrongly telecasted. He told that some social thinkers like Vivek Kumar have also understood his statement in the right context.
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