Days after Sabyasachi Das, an assistant professor at Ashoka University, resigned following a controversy over his research paper, Pulapre Balakrishnan, another professor in the economics department, has put in his papers.
Mr. Das’ colleagues have written to the university’s governing body threatening a faculty exodus if he is not reinstated. The English and Creative Writing departments have also extended their support to the demand.
The university had earlier distanced itself from the paper, Democratic Backsliding in the World's Largest Democracy, in which Mr. Das argued that the BJP won a disproportionate share of closely contested parliamentary seats in 2019 Lok Sabha polls, especially in States where it was the ruling party at the time. The research was published on the Social Science Research Network on July 25.
