Days after an SRCC professor alleged he was manhandled by security staff of Delhi University Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh at a conference here, the co-convener of the event rubbished his claims as politically motivated.
R K Singh, co-convener of the 'Transformational Leadership' conference at Sri Ram College of Commerce, yesterday refuted the allegations and said the professor concerned, Sanjaya Kumar Bohidar, had his "own agenda and political motives".
Singh has in a letter to the university's Registrar said Bohidar had been taken out of the conference by college teachers for disrupting the seminar and not by VC's guards as claimed by the professor.
Bohidar, an Economics professor at SRCC, had claimed on Saturday that he had been manhandled by the Vice Chancellor's "bouncers" when he asked for permission to leave the auditorium room just before Singh was to begin his address.
Reacting to the letter by Singh, Bohidar said today that it was a "belated attempt at image salvation by the University".
A protest in support of Bohidar was also organised by a group of teachers and students outside Arts Faculty Gate in DU's north campus, seeking the VC's removal over the incident.
Several teachers and students also signed a petition seeking the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for removal of Dinesh Singh as VC over the incident.
"We want the PM to intervene and Dinesh Singh should be removed from the position of Vice-Chancellor. We will submit this petition tomorrow to the PM," Delhi University Teachers' Association (DUTA) Abha Dev Habib said.
