On Monday vice-chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit said that outsiders might be involved in the scribbling of genocidal graffiti against Brahmins and Baniyas on several walls inside the campus.
Speaking to PTI, the Vice-Chancellor said that JNU is a place for all and no one can use it to spread hatred against any group.
Earlier this month, the walls of the School of International Studies (SIS)-II building of JNU were defaced with genocidal graffiti against Brahmin and Bania communities.
In the first interaction with the media over the matter, the vice-chancellor termed the incident unfortunate, adding that the walls were white-washed within 24 hours. “The incident that took place of the defacement of our walls in the School of International Studies was very unfortunate and an inquiry is underway. Immediately the walls were whitewashed and cleaned within 24 hours,” she said.
“It has come to our knowledge that outsiders might have come and done this. We are thinking of how we can take precautionary measures so that such incidents do not take place in future,” she added.
After this incident, JNU asked all its centers to install CCTV cameras. In an advisory, the JNU university administration has notified that all schools and centers will have only one entry and exit point.
