Ashoka Students To Boycott Classes Over Resignations Of Professors

The Ashoka University Student Government, a student body, also said on Saturday it will be organising a separate movement demanding the resignation of the Vice-Chancellor.

Students of Ashoka University have announced a two-day boycott of classes from Monday in protest against some recent developments at the institution, including the resignations of faculty members Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramanian. The Ashoka University Student Government, a student body, also said on Saturday it will be organising a separate movement demanding the resignation of the Vice-Chancellor. The university in Haryana's Sonipat became the centre of a controversy earlier this week, when political commentator Mr Mehta, who had resigned as its vice chancellor two years back, chose to step down as professor, saying that the founders made it "abundantly clear" that his association with the institution was a "political liability". Arvind Subramanian, the former chief economic advisor to the government, had resigned from the university two days later in solidarity with Mehta.