Assam’s Gurucharan College students have registered an FIR against a guest professor for allegedly posting ‘derogatory remarks’ against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The students have alleged that the professor Sourdeep Sengupta who teaches physics “hurt the sentiments” of students belonging to a particular religious community.
“Souradeep Sengupta…has made derogatory remarks and abused the ‘Sanatan Dharma’ as a whole,” the FIR read.
“He has also alleged the prime minister of the nation was mass murder and tried to incite communal violence by making inflammatory comments against the Hindu community, in the context of the recent Delhi violence.”
The students have written a letter to the college authorities and asked for the termination of the professor.
The letter, posted on Facebook by ABVP’s Karanjit Deb, said that if he is allowed to continue, his “destructive ideology” will influence other students.
“As a guest lecturer of the college, by applying his destructive ideology in teaching he has influenced many students and will continue influencing many more, if he is allowed to continue as a guest lecturer of this highly esteemed institute of our state,” the students’ letter to the college read.
“People on the street are getting their IDs checked to see if they are Muslim – if they are, they are getting beaten mercilessly,” he had posted, but deleted it later after backlash.
