AN IMPORTANT QUESTION FACING THE MOVEMENT OF MU STUDENTS AGAINST THE SUSPENSION OF PROF. HATEKAR.

The spontaneous movement of the students and other members of the MU community against the suspension of Prof. Neeraj Hatekar is slowly gathering momentum. 

However, there are some things about which every student participating in the movement, and especially the students of the Economics department, should be concerned. Its noteworthy that the students of MU themselves started the movement immediately after the suspension of Prof. Hatekar. UCDE gave a call for protest demonstration on January 6. After that demonstration various ELECTORAL POLITICAL PARTIES also have tried to make incursions into the movement. This is a very alarming development. We know that the other universities like Delhi University, Allahabad University, etc have been turned into training centers for becoming MLAs-MPs by these very electoral political parties. 

Do we really want that fate for our university as well? Do we really want it to become a center of politics of money-power and muscle-power? Do we want lumpenization, criminalization and academic deterioration of our campus? If not, then we must organize our movement independently on the principle: BY THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY, FOR THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY, OF THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY! If anyone wants to support our movement, we welcome them. However, we should not allow them to hijack this independent, spontaneous and healthy movement of students and other members of the University Community for a genuine demand; we should not allow any electoral political force to turn the campus into their wrestling arena. We must understand the importance of this issue.