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| Varun appears to be desperate for another term? | | JU In For More Trouble | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 4: Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University Varun Sahni appears to be "desperate for extension." Hitherto, there were reports that "Sahni doesn't maintain good relations with those at the helm" and that "he might not get extension after he completes three unsuccessful years in office." This was also the general impression among the University dons and those working in the registry. There were also reports that "he would want another term provided the authorities on their own grant him an extension." Sources close to him had revealed that "he would not beg for extension" and that "he would pack up in November this year and go back to Jawaharlal Nehru University from where he came." "Things have now changed", sources close to him disclosed, adding that "he is now desperately seeking another term so that he could enjoy the loaves and fishes of office for another three years and finish the unfinished agenda of Amitabh Mattoo."
According to sources, "the press conference he addressed yesterday condemning the agitating students and administering an unequivocal threat that he would take action against students in case they speak against the Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor or burn their effigies on the campus was aimed at cultivating Governor N N Vohra (Chancellor of Jammu University) and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah (Pro-Chancellor of the university) was a desperate attempt on his part to win the goodwill of the authorities so that he could fulfill his dream." Sources also pointed out that "it was perhaps for the first time since 1969 that any Vice-Chancellor in the University of Jammu has come out so openly in support of the Chancellor and the Pro-Chancellor taking cudgels with the student community." The University of Jammu came into being in 1969 after the University of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated under pressure from the Jammu students. Four students had sacrificed their precious lives in 1966-1967 for the establishment of a separate university in Jammu province.
The sources made their point by stating that "the Vice-Chancellor, instead of asking the Dean Students Welfare to set the record straight as far as the student activities and the lathicharge on the protesting students was concerned, himself came forward to criticize and condemn the students activities on the campus, including the burning of the effigies of the Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor, establish beyond any doubt that Varun Sahni found in what happened in the university a god-sent opportunity to push forward his personal agenda and ensure that he gets an extension by siding with the authorities so brazenly." They sources pointed out that "normally it is the Dean Students Welfare who interacts with the media to give the official version."
One may or may not agree with what the sources close to the Vice-Chancellor have revealed. But one cannot disagree with them when the same source says that "Varun Sahni has landed himself into a deep trouble by directly confronting the agitating student community" and that "the coming days may witness a major confrontation between the Vice-Chancellor and the student community." Significantly, the same sources have also pointed out that the "latest action of the Vice-Chancellor would strength those who want Varun Sahni to go lock, stock and barrel immediately so that some local academician takes over as the new Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University." "The Vice-Chancellor has become thoroughly unpopular over the period because of his arrogance, obstinacy and dictatorial behaviour, as also because he is running the university affairs with the help of a coterie comprising self-seekers, sycophants and gang of incompetent and corrupt elements."
If what these sources have revealed on the condition of anonymity is correct, then one can say without any fear that all is not well with the University of Jammu, the provinces premier institution of higher education.
That the protagonists of a separate administrative arrangement for the so-called Chenab Valley would organize three activities on the campus on the same day was a proof that they unleashed the break-Jammu crusade with the overt and covert support of certain elements in the university establishment. It was not an ordinary event. It was a major onslaught on the unity and integrity of Jammu province. What was the police doing at that time? And, what were the authorities doing when the CVPA activists were organizing their activities?
It needs to be underlined that it was during the time of Varun Sahni's predecessor Amitabh Mattoo that certain anti-Jammu and pro-separatist and pro-Chenab Valley Hill Development Council (CVHDC) elements had become very active and they were very, very close to Mattoo. So much so that Mattoo would depend upon at least two of the protagonists of the CVHDC. Not just this, Mattoo promoted them overnight. Everyone in the Jammu University knows who these two persons were.
However, it's true that these elements did not organize the break-Jammu activities in the way the CVPA organized on Monday. It is obvious that the process of mobilization on the campus and elsewhere was on and that the campus under Varun Sahni has become a breeding ground for break-Jammu activities or for creating an environment that would lead to the implementation of the 1950 Dixon Plan. Dixon Plan had envisaged division of Jammu province along Chenab River on communal lines as a solution to the "Kashmir problem" and the Government of India had opposed it tooth and nail.
However, the fundamental question to be asked is: Does Chenab Valley exist in the areas the CVPA activists and similar other elements talk about? There exists no such Valley as Chenab Valley anywhere in the Jammu province. They are talking about something that is non-existent and they are doing so to further their pernicious agenda. Valley is a definite geographical term and anyone who has visited the erstwhile Doda district would at once reject out-of-hand the suggestion that there exists in the said area Chenab Valley. The anti-Jammu and communal forces have coined this term to undermine the unity and integrity of India and that's it.
Varun Sahni would do well to initiate action against those who vitiated the environment in the campus by indulging in secessionist and break-India activities. Such an action on his part has become imperative. |
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