Responding to the clash between two groups of students – Students’ Federation of India (SFI) of the left wing and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) of the right wing – at the Central University of Karnataka (CUK) near Kalaburagi, Priyank Kharge, Minister for Rural Development & Panchayat Raj and Information Technology and Biotechnology and Kalaburagi in charge, held the CUK authorities responsible for the turn of events.
“I think that the Central University of Karnataka (CUK) is doing everything except for educational activities. I will shortly visit the university. The very purpose of establishing such a big institution is to facilitate the educational development of the region and help the students from this region to grow and develop a scientific temperament. But, the politics which we can see in that university is more than the politics we can see in Kalaburagi. I had once told them [CUK authorities] to mend their ways and I think they have not rectified their errors. I will visit the university soon. They might think that they come under the Union government. They should know that any Central institution can function only with the help and support of the local government. We have facilitated the establishment of the Central University here to offer quality education and not to open a RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] centre,” he said during his brief interaction with the mediapersons at Aiwan-e-Shahi Guest House in Kalaburagi on Saturday.
