Name of JNU road changed, students call it shameful

Ground Report | New Delhi

A road in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus has been named after VD Savarkar, the Hindu nationalist leader known for promulgating philosophy of Hindutva. The decision to name a road 'VD Savarkar Marg' was taken in November 13 last year. 

JNUSU's student union leader Aishe Ghosh tweeted the picture of the Marg board. “It’s a shame to the legacy of JNU that this man’s name has been put in this university. Never did the university had space for Savarkar and his stooges and never will it have(sic),” she tweeted.

It's a shame to the legacy of JNU that this man's name has been put in this university.

Never did the university had space for Savarkar and his stooges and never will it have !#RejectHindutva@ndtv @BhimArmyChief @RanaAyyub @SFI_CEC @ttindia @IndiaToday pic.twitter.com/Q81PSkkpzq

— Aishe (ঐশী) (@aishe_ghosh) March 15, 2020

The board is erected adjacent to a signboard showing way to the Subansir hostel in the campus. General Secretary Satish Chandra Yadav said this was an attempt to tame the character of JNU.“The people who joined with colonial powers at the time of freedom movement are being given this treatment in JNU. We won’t accept it,” he said.

जिसने अँग्रेजों से माफ़ी माँगी और देश के साथ गद्दारी की, आज उसके नाम का बोर्ड #JNU में लगाकर VC @mamidala90 ने अपनी बेशर्मी की मिशाल पेश कर दी।
लेकिन JNU के छात्र इस संघी भगवाकरण की राजनीति को नकारते हैं।@ndtv @BBCHindi @PTI_News @aisajnu @JNUSUofficial pic.twitter.com/AKbOTDK1hk

— Satish Chandra Yadav (@satish_jnu) March 15, 2020

Last year in August, ahead of the Delhi University student union polls, DUSU President Shakti Singh had installed statues of Veer Savarkar, Subhash Chandra Bose and Bhagat Singh outside the gate of the varsity's Arts Faculty in north campus. She had done this without obtaining any permissions.

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