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June 10, 2021

India: Is BJP/RSS Strategically ‘Planting’ its People in Academia? A case of IIT Bombay

 Is BJP/RSS Strategically ‘Planting’ its People in Academia? A case of IIT Bombay

Allegations of planting ideologically driven favored people, in the academic positions were regularly made by the combined forces of BJP/RSS while it was in opposition. However, after obtaining power the BJP/RSS combine has unscrupulously planted its ‘own’ people with even more brazenness. During previous regimes the academic positions in institutions of excellence, such as, IIT were, generally, not interfered with. Moreover, the favoured ones never unabashedly flaunted their party based affiliations publicly. In the BJP/RSS regime shameless exhibition of partisan affiliation has been observed. [ . . ]