more-in The Communist Party of India (CPI) has condemned the police action on students of Pondicherry University during the visit of former BJP Member of Parliament Tarun Vijay to the institution on Thursday and demanded the government to order a judicial probe into the incident. CPI State secretary R. Viswanathan told presspersons that the police had used force against students who were only exercising their democratic rights to register their protest against Mr. Vijay for his objectionable comments against south Indians. The Puducherry government should order a judicial probe into police high-handedness against students. A number of girls faced the wrath of the police and using force against them was extremely condemnable. Mr. Viswanathan said the BJP-led government at the Centre was inclined to impose its Hindutva ideology on all the Central Universities under its fold. The move of the Centre to set up the National Commission for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes through a constitutional amendment was an infringement on the rights and privileges of the State governments. Condemning the continued war of words between the Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi and the government, he said the administration had come to a standstill.

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