Shashi Tharoor slams DU professor’s “mark jihad” remarks against Kerala education board

Thiruvananthapuram, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday described as “ridiculous” a Delhi College professor’s “mark jihad” remarks in opposition to the Kerala training board after a lot of college students from the southern state utilized to DU schools for greater research with good marks.

Responding to remarks by Rakesh Kumar Pandey, a member of RSS-affiliated lecturers’ physique Nationwide Democratic Lecturers’ Entrance, who had hinted at a “conspiracy” behind the excessive variety of candidates from Kerala, Tharoor mentioned, “This anti-Kerala bias should finish now!”

“The usage of “jihad” as a synonym for any development you do not like is exceeding all limits: now a DU trainer has acquired consideration by absurdly decrying #MarksJihad!,” Tharoor tweeted, sharing the hyperlink of a information report carrying Pandey’s controversial remarks.

“I’ve all the time decried the over-reliance on marks as the principle criterion for DU admission, however that is ridiculous. If “Jihad” means a battle (with your self above all), the Kerala college students scoring 100% have struggled in opposition to the chances to get to DU. Interview them first if you want earlier than letting them in, however do not demonise their marks! This anti-Kerala bias should finish now!”, the Thiruvananthapuram MP tweeted.

In a press release on Wednesday, Pandey had alleged that “the invasion of Kerala board college students with good 100 per cent marks can’t be thought-about as unplanned.” “It hints at one thing that have to be investigated. There isn’t any means that one can settle for this inexplicable stream of scholars from the Kerala board as regular. Majority of those college students are comfy neither in Hindi nor in English. All these college students shouldn’t have 100 per cent marks in Class 11,” Pandey had mentioned, calling it a “marks jihad”.

Over 100 admissions of scholars of the Kerala board have been placed on maintain by the Delhi College (DU) over a confusion associated to their marksheets, however the matter was resolved after officers contacted the board within the southern state, sources had mentioned on Wednesday.

Amid a lot of college students from the Kerala board making use of to DU schools, that too a majority of them being good scorers, a problem over their marksheets had risen on Monday, main the admission department of the college to direct the universities to place the admissions on maintain. A majority of those admissions had taken place in north campus schools, the sources had mentioned.