FEDCUTA PRESS RELEASE, 5.11.2016

   
The FEDCUTA strongly condemns the recent high-handed moves of the AMU administration which have led to unprecedented attacks on the freedom of expression and association in the university.On the 29th October 2016 the EC of the AMU has compulsorily retired Prof. Mustafa Zaidi, the Secretary of the AMUTA for staging a Dharna in the university on the democratic mandate of the AMUTA to highlight the corruption and ineptness of the AMU administration.Prof. Zaidi was earlier suspended and an enquiry was instituted against him on the flimsy and baseless grounds of his not carrying out his teaching responsibilities.The FEDCUTA demands that this authoritarian decision be immediately revoked.


In an equally dastardly and undemocratic move cases were filed in a local court by the AMU administration against the visiting FEDCUTA and DUTA President Prof. Nandita Narain and Professor Badshah Alam,Treasurer FEDCUTA for expressing solidarity with the AMUTA agitation.The FEDCUTA strongly condemns this attack on the teachers’ movement and demands that these cases be immediately withdrawn. FEDCUTA reiterates that the Vice Chancellor of AMU has lost all moral authority to lead the institution and should immediately resign. In this context the FEDCUTA welcomes the institution of an enquiry by the Government of India in to the affairs of the university.


The FEDCUTA demands that the irregularities of the university administration in awarding wilful contracts, of conducting highly irregular and dubious admissions and appointments and entering of the administration in to quid pro quo donations be immediately be probed by this enquiry. 


The FEDCUTA believes that the Indian constitution under the Seventh Schedule has given the AMU the high status of an institution of national importance.The ways in which the AMU administration has thrown the university in to an undemocratic and ill governed quagmire hardly upholds this importance. On the contrary reports of a deteriorating campus situation including murders on the campus makes it imperative that all responsible political parties, the civil society and citizens from all walks of life join with the AMUTA to bring back normalcy and civility to the AMU. The FEDCUTA stands with the AMUTA in this hour of crisis and resolves to support the democratic struggle for bringing back the university to its constitutional status of high national importance.

     Nandita Narain                                                                                                         Ajay Patnaik