Why is the National Institute of Technology, Kozhikode NIT, Kerala, constantly in the news for all the wrong reasons? Is there an attempt to make this campus a leftist bastion like Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi? The questions arise in the context of continuous threats and intimidation against the Hindu faith and Hindu students there.
On any left-governed campus, the tendency is to seek total student autonomy. Left-leaning students can come and go anywhere at any time. They consider that they should not be controlled, which is the Students’ Federation of India (SFI) policy. This is a dangerous trend for young minds just out of school.
Recently, left-leaning students protested against the night restriction in NIT-C. They protested the Dean’s circular stating that students should enter the hostel before midnight. Some students boycotted classes and blocked the institute’s gate, preventing staff and faculty from entering the campus on a Friday.
Deans are academic leaders with academic, programmatic, managerial, and fiscal responsibilities for an educational institute. NIT Kozhikode Dean’s proposal to close the canteen early indicated that eating food late at night is bad for health and that there is a need to ensure the safety of students.
The SFI termed the Dean’s well-intentioned directive ‘night curfew’. These unruly elements in the NIT tried to bring the campus to the point where discipline could not be implemented, and student organisations like SFI should have the final say.
According to the circular, students’ studies will be affected if their health deteriorates. Students were warned that those who violate the instructions mentioned in the circular will be suspended.
Leftist student organisations like SFI have forced all the educational institutions where they establish their authoritarian independence to later slip into criminality and debauchery.
An example of this is the murder of a student named JS Siddharthan following a mob trial conducted by the SFI at Wayanad Pookode Veterinary College. It is only when they acquire such powers that the fascist student union has the power to assault, parade naked, starve, physically assault and kill the students.
Leftist-controlled (until recently) JNU was infamous for condoms, liquor bottles, drug abuse, contraceptive injections, girls coming out of men’s toilets and misdeeds against young women students after 8 PM inside the campus. It is easy to claim these are mere allegations when the media is controlled by ex-JNU students who dominate the broadcasts. However, how long can the truth be hidden?
Calicut NIT is one of the prominent NITs in India. It is not an arts and science college like University College in Thiruvananthapuram or the JNU. It is a technology learning centre supported by the central government.
Perhaps it is a campus of choice for technology students after the Trichy NIT. Students from different parts of Bharat study here, including many from North Bharat. They Celebrate Hindu festivals publicly with pomp and glory.
Last month, NIT-C witnessed strong protests by green communist students demanding the reversal of a suspension for a student who protested against a celebration on campus related to the Ayodhya Ram temple consecration. The suspension was subsequently withheld. Ayodhya and Bhagwan Shriram are emotions ingrained in Bharatiya culture.
Some leftist and Islamist students who have taken control of the politics of Kerala tried their best to prevent and disrupt these festivities. The tendency to view all this as evil, which is increasing in NITs, is creating discomfort among Hindu students.
Also, last month, Dr Shaija Andavan, a professor at the NIT-C, was hounded over a comment made under a Facebook post on Nathuram Godse. The post featured an image of Naturam and stated that many people in Bharat considered him a hero. Dr Shaija left a comment under this post saying, “Proud of Godse for saving India.”
Several student organisations, including the SFI and the Muslim Students Federation, filed numerous complaints against Prof. Shaija at various police stations. As a result, an FIR was filed against her, citing Section 153 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which prohibits giving provocation with the intent to cause a riot. Even the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) joined the SFI and marched in protest to the NIT-C campus at Chathamangalam, Kozhikode, demanding action against Prof. Shaija.
Fascist politics seeks to undermine the credibility of institutions that harbour independent voices until they can be replaced by media and universities that support those voices. For the sake of demagogics, accusations of hypocrisy and “political correctness” are commonly used. This is precisely what we are witnessing at NIT-C.
