It is suspected that the group active in disrupting the Swabiyu elections has vandalized under the cover of Sangharsh Samiti
A group vandalized the office of Tribhuvan University Rector and Dean of Science and Technology Studies Institute on Friday. Eyewitnesses said that a group of students vandalized the office of Rector Khadg KC and Dean Shankar Khanal in Kirtipur.
KC and Khanal were vandalized before reaching the office. The Rector and Dean's office informed that the chairs, glass, table, drawer, sofa in the office were damaged. Before I reached the office, vandalism was done. We do not know who vandalized and why," Rector KC said. We have informed the Kirtipur police circle about the incident. The police may be investigating.
He said that the students did not make any demands and recently there was a dispute about something. But according to eyewitnesses, the students including Sikendra Rokay and Narendra Saud, who was elected as a member of SWVU from the Union, said that they vandalized the Rector, Dean's office and caused damage. The
staff said that students who came in groups of 5/7 vandalized both offices and could not identify all of them. The students have been making various demands by forming the University Struggle Committee under the coordination of Rokay. According to the students, Saud, who represents Swaviyu from the Navy Union, is also involved in the said committee.
'The office was vandalized before reaching it. There was no such issue. Who vandalized has not been identified. "University students should not do such things," Dean Khanal said, "It is sad." He said that there was no subject except that physics students requested to move the second semester examination of the postgraduate level. There is an exam after the Swaviyu election. The students said they should move. "They came saying that I should not move," he said.
Some professors, staff and students of the University have claimed that the group active in disrupting the Swaviyu elections scheduled on March 5 may have carried out disorderly activities including vandalism under the guise of the Sangharsh Committee. Even though the students of Navy Association were found to be involved in the vandalism, the University Navy Association Committee claimed that there was no official involvement of the organization in the vandalism of the Rector's office.
President Vishnu Badaila has issued a statement saying that there was no vandalism according to the official decision or instructions of the Navy Association. "Navisangh does not support any kind of violent or vandalism activities. Uncivil activities such as vandalism are against the ideals and beliefs of the Union,'' the statement said, 'and it is not an action taken according to any official decision or instruction of ours. We have taken serious notice of misleading news and baseless allegations.'
The students had been protesting in the name of Trivi Sangharsh Samiti, demanding reduction of fees of some central departments from the rector. Students of the Navy Union are also involved in the committee. The movement was led by students affiliated to Nevinsagh. Apart from submitting the memorandum, they also locked the Rector's office. But they became angry after the university administration broke the lock. SP Apilraj Bohra, Spokesperson of District Police Police Complex Kathmandu, said that an investigation was started after receiving information about vandalism.
