TN med varsity forced to cancel ABVP-linked event
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 13.04.2018
Chennai: The state medical university was forced to cancel an all-India medical and dental conference after it faced severe backlash on social media for co-organising it with the rightwing students’ organisation Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
The directorate of medical education has sent a notice to the conference committee patron Dr S Subbiah, head of oncology department at Kilpauk Medical College Hospital, who, they found, was also the national president of ABVP.
On Thursday, doctors shared the invitation on social media to rally support for “a signature campaign against saffronisation” of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University. Some doctors even called the university officials seeking an explanation. “We had allowed them to conduct the event at the auditorium because it was a students’ welfare conference. They misled us and printed the name of the university as co-organisers. We have no affiliation to any political party. We have cancelled the event,” said Dr Geethalakshmi. Director of medical education said he would send a showcause notice to Dr Subbiah. “A government staff member cannot have political affiliation. If doctors want to join a party or contest elections, they have to quit government service. Dr Subbiah should choose between ABVP and government,” he said. His reply will be forwarded to the government for suitable action, he added.
Dr Subbiah, who was elected to the post in December 2017, said ABVP had no political affiliation. “Our ideologies are the same as the BJP or RSS, but that does not affiliate us with them. Our web page clearly mentions that we are not a political party. I need not have government permission to be a part of students’ association,” he said.
Doctors shared the invitation on social media to rally support for “a signature campaign against saffronisation” of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 13.04.2018
Chennai: The state medical university was forced to cancel an all-India medical and dental conference after it faced severe backlash on social media for co-organising it with the rightwing students’ organisation Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
The directorate of medical education has sent a notice to the conference committee patron Dr S Subbiah, head of oncology department at Kilpauk Medical College Hospital, who, they found, was also the national president of ABVP.
On Thursday, doctors shared the invitation on social media to rally support for “a signature campaign against saffronisation” of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University. Some doctors even called the university officials seeking an explanation. “We had allowed them to conduct the event at the auditorium because it was a students’ welfare conference. They misled us and printed the name of the university as co-organisers. We have no affiliation to any political party. We have cancelled the event,” said Dr Geethalakshmi. Director of medical education said he would send a showcause notice to Dr Subbiah. “A government staff member cannot have political affiliation. If doctors want to join a party or contest elections, they have to quit government service. Dr Subbiah should choose between ABVP and government,” he said. His reply will be forwarded to the government for suitable action, he added.
Dr Subbiah, who was elected to the post in December 2017, said ABVP had no political affiliation. “Our ideologies are the same as the BJP or RSS, but that does not affiliate us with them. Our web page clearly mentions that we are not a political party. I need not have government permission to be a part of students’ association,” he said.
Doctors shared the invitation on social media to rally support for “a signature campaign against saffronisation” of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University
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