ABVP Says Two Questions 'Anti-National', UP Professor Barred for Life from Setting Exam Papers
Omar Rashid | 05 April 2025 | The Wire
A government-run university in Uttar Pradesh has barred a professor of an affiliate college in Meerut from all examination and evaluation work after Hindutva student activists objected to two questions set by her about the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). The Akhil Bharatiya Vidharthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of the RSS, protested against professor Seema Panwar, accusing her of being “afflicted with some anti-national ideology.”
After ABVP submitted a memorandum to the administration of the state-run Chaudhary Charan Singh University – a major educational institution in western UP – the varsity decided to debar Panwar from all examination work for life. “She has been debarred from setting papers for life,” Dhirendra Kumar Verma, the registrar of the university, told The Wire on April 5…