‘Will the SC additionally open for us at evening?’ JNU VC raises questions on SC’s resolution on Teesta Setalvad case

On Sunday, September 17, Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), raised questions on the working of the Supreme Court. She contemplated whether or not would SC deal with others because it did when it granted reduction to activist Teesta Setalvad on a Saturday evening.

The JNU VC was referring to the Supreme Court’s grant of interim safety from arrest to Setalvad on July 1 in a case regarding proof falsification to border harmless people in 2002 post-Godhra riot instances.

“The Leftist ecosystem still exists. You know, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court opened the court on a Saturday night to give Teesta Setalvad bail. Will it happen for us,” she requested whereas on the launch of a Marathi guide named ‘Jagala Pokharnari Davi Walvi’ (World-weakening Leftist Termites) in Pune.

Pandit has a protracted affiliation with Pune as she was a lecturer within the Political Science division of Maharashtra’s Savitribai Phule Pune University. “To retain political power, you need (to have) narrative power. We need to have it. Unless we attain it, we will be like a directionless ship,” she stated.

During the tackle, she additionally stated that she was related to RSS-affiliated organizations in her childhood years. “I was a Bal Sevika’ in my childhood. I got my sanskaras (values) from the RSS only. I am proud to say that I belong to the Sangh (RSS) and I am proud to say that I am a Hindu. I do not hesitate at all. Garv se kehti hu main Hindu hoon,” she repeated because the viewers shouted the slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

“Left and RSS are individual ideologies. There has been a major paradigm shift post-2014 in the conflict between these two ideologies,” she stated.

Pandit, who was appointed as JNU VC in February final yr, acknowledged that some people objected to her option to show the nationwide flag and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s {photograph} on campus.

Pandit asserted she knowledgeable them they had been consuming free meals on campus paid for by taxpayers and that they need to bow earlier than the nationwide flag and PM Modi’s portrait.

“Until I went to JNU, there was no photo of PM Modi, the President of India, or the national flag. Many people told me not to bring (them) on the campus. I told them you enjoy free meals here with taxpayers’ money, bow before them. He is the prime minister of the country. He does not belong to any party. More than a year has passed and nobody has protested against it,” she stated.

In reference to the upcoming Nalanda University in Bihar, she acknowledged, “I recently visited the Nalanda University at Bakhtiyarpur.” We ought to modify the identify of Bakhtiyarpur. That’s an odd identify.”

“Our Bharatiya civilization is superior, feminist, and the greatest in the world,” she stated as she remarked on the nation’s historic civilization. “Draupadi is the first feminist and not one Simone De Beauvoir (French philosopher). Our civilization is nature-centric,” she stated. 

On July 1, a 3-judge bench of the Supreme Court granted interim bail to controversial activist Teesta Setalvad. A bench of Justices BR Gavai, AS Bopanna, and Dipankar Datta was listening to the case. The bigger 3-judge bench was fashioned minutes after a 2-judge bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Prashant Kumar Mishra didn’t arrive at a consensus on the enchantment difficult the Gujarat High Court order refusing common bail. 

As reported earlier, the 3-judge bench was fashioned inside minutes, and the listening to was scheduled at 9.15 p.m. CJI Chandrachud, who was watching a Bharatnatyam efficiency at the moment, bought up a number of instances and ensured the formation of a bigger bench for the sake of Teesta Satalvad’s bail listening to.