KOZHIKODE: The ‘marks jihad’ remark made by a Delhi University professor against the Kerala education board finding fault with large number of students from the state with 100% marks getting admissions in the varsity has drawn widespread condemnation.
IUML national organization secretary and MP E T Mohammed Basheer said that the remark by Rakesh Kumar Pandey, a professor of physics at Kirori Mal College, amounted to denigrating the entire people of Kerala.
“Such remarks should not have come from a teacher at all. The petty remarks made by him that marks are being inflated are totally false.” he said and demanded that the teacher withdraw the statement and tender an apology.
The Muslim Students Federation (MSF), the student wing of IUML, said that the statement by the teacher, who is a member of the RSSaffiliated National Democratic Teacher’s Front amounted to hate mongering.
T P Ashraf Ali, president of MSF national committee, said that the allegations of Pandey were borne out of outright hatred and racial anxieties and was yet another example of intolerance and dogmatism. “We unequivocally demand the professor to rescind the statement and the university should ensure equal treatment to all of the applicants across the boards,” he said.
SFI national president V P Sanu in a tweet said that the ‘communal and racist conspiracy’ theory that southern state students flow to Delhi University was part of ‘marks jihad’ speaks volumes about RSS vision on idea of India and the kind of poison they are.
