Senator suspension causes uproar, rocks Upper House
Aditya Thackeray
Yuva Sena chief Aditya Thackeray stormed into Mumbai University after seven senate members affiliated to his group were suspended from the senate meeting on Thursday for disrupting the normal course of the budget session. The senate members had been protesting the apathetic attitude of the university towards the various examination problems that students have been suffering in the past week as well as rumours of paper leaks over the past two days. After the issue was raised in both the houses, Mr Thackeray said that Yuva Sena would give the government a week’s time to get the sorted out, or else the Yuva Sena would take matters into their own hands.
During the second day of the senate meeting, Yuva Sena senators stopped the vice-chancellor’s nominee from presenting the budget. As the senators refused to allow the session to go on, vice-chancellor Dr Rajan Welukar suspended the seven senators. The senators walked out and sat on a protest outside the convocation hall where the meeting was in progress.
“The VC has given assurances that the paper leak, hall ticket and centre allocation fiasco will be investigated but we are not happy with the assurances,” said Yuva Sena senator Mr Dilip Karande.
As news of the suspension spread to the assembly, the members of legislative council also created an uproar as a result of which the houses had to be suspended for 30 minutes. Shiv Sena and BJP legislators demanded dismissal of the VC.“It is unfortunate that the VC has been behaving in a dictatorial manner,” said Mr Thackeray.
Even as the seven senators protested outside the meeting venue, the university budget was passed without much discussion.
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