MP Shashi Tharoor Calls For Appointment Of Enquiry Commission Into RGNUL VC's Actions, Says He Should Step Aside Until Findings Are Released

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has called for an enquiry into the Vice Chancellor of the Rajiv Gandhi National University Of Law (RGNUL), Patiala after the University's students protested demanding his resignation over entering the girls' hostel and its rooms unannounced and without notice.

The University on Monday, shut down till further notice after the students refused to enter into dialogue without assurances of the VCs resignation.

"Disturbing to read that Patiala's RGNUL has been shut after students demanded the V-C's resignation over a surprise girls' hostel inspection to “check on drinking after midnight”, and a disgraceful pattern of sexist remarks on women. It is startling that the Vice Chancellor of a law university seems completely unaware of his students' constitutional right to privacy. The government should immediately appoint a commission of enquiry, and the VC should step aside until its findings are released. The behaviour reported in the media seems at the least inappropriate," Tharoor wrote on his 'X' handle.