University officials and professors have complained that the All Revolutionary Organization, a sister organization of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP), has been displaying unruly and indecent behavior at Tribhuvan University. The angry revolutionaries displayed indecent behavior after the lockdown imposed on the university was lifted with the help of the police administration.

Due to this, the academic activities of the university, where about 500,000 students pursue higher education, are being disrupted. On Friday morning, Krantikari activists pasted leaflets on the chairs of the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar using abusive words.

Krantikari's TU committee chairman Dinesh Air made the photo of the pasted leaflets public on social media. The leaflets with abusive words including 'I am an academic mafia' and 'I am the academic tyrant of the university' have been pasted on the chairs of Vice-Chancellor Deepak Aryal and Registrar Kedar Rijal.

In connection with Friday's incident, Air shared the photo on social media and called the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar an academic mafia and oppressors. He said that even though the four self-sustaining programs under the TU Humanities Faculty have been upgraded to central departments, the agreement regarding fee adjustment has not been implemented.

He wrote, ‘Therefore, the symbolic protest by pasting photos on the chairs of the officials is not against the person, but against the lack of duty, it is an exposure of the real character they have shown. The game of making and breaking agreements should be stopped. Talks should be opened immediately, the agreement should be implemented.’

The same group had thrown the nameplate outside Rector Khadga KC’s office last Monday. The photo of the nameplate being vandalized went viral on social media. The revolutionary has been criticized on social media for his defiant and chaotic activities.

‘The Rector had gone to Bhairahawa for work at Rijal University. 5/6 students of the revolutionary came. This rector is not working. We will appoint another rector and they took away the nameplate,’ said an employee of the rector’s office. ‘We saw the photo on social media of the nameplate being vandalized and damaged.’

After the administration opened the lock that the revolutionary had put on the offices of the officials including the vice-chancellor, a torchlight procession was held at the university on 12 Magh. The revolutionary air force had publicly warned of physical attacks on the officials after the lockout was lifted. The professors complain that such activities have terrorized the officials, professors, students and employees.

‘The security environment in the university has deteriorated. Which has created a muscle that can do anything at any time,’ said a professor at TU, ‘impunity has increased. No action is taken even if any illegal activity is committed.’ 

Nepal Progressive Professors’ Organization President Padma Prasad Khatiwada and General Secretary Suman Kharel have issued a statement stating that there has been anarchic behavior towards the university officials and such behavior is unacceptable in a democratic system. They have been urged to express their disagreement peacefully. The professors’ organization has urged TU and the student organization to end the obstruction through dialogue and cooperation.

The revolutionary had locked the offices of the Vice-Chancellor, Rector and Registrar on 19 Poush. TU had given an ultimatum to open the locks placed by the revolutionary in Magh, saying that the agreement had not been implemented. Vice Chancellor Aryal said that the lock was broken with the help of the administration after it was not opened.

The lock was opened because the agreement to reduce the fees of the Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Gender Studies, Social Work and Conflict Peace and Development Studies was not implemented. TU has stated that it has formed a fee review task force to proceed with the work. Since the students' demands are also related to financial administration, they can be met only after a detailed study, says Vice Chancellor Aryal. 'The process of fulfilling the demands by forming a fee review task force has been initiated,' he said.

TU has stated that the lock was opened as per the order of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had issued an interim order on 18 Ashad not to lock the TU and if it had done so, to open it. Vice Chancellor Aryal said that the order was implemented. He said that the revolutionary students threatened to chase and physically attack them on the same day the lock was opened.

Even though the lock was opened due to the threats, the officials have not been able to reach the university offices and work. They have been performing their daily work by sitting in different dean's offices and departments and other bodies of TU. Air objected to the police administration opening the lock, writing on social media, "Are you trying to make excuses by teasing student organizations and movements? Let's see how you are entering the university."  

Student unions and organizations had previously threatened and obstructed the movement of students to and from the university. "We respect and have been doing so. But suppressing the legitimate demands of students under the guise of a court order, imposing injustice, and administrative repression is unacceptable. It is our right and responsibility to fight back against this," Air said, "If the administration tries to attack the peaceful movement of revolutionaries with the force of threats and repression, we will not remain silent. We will be forced to fight back strongly and organizedly." The revolutionaries have been demanding through a statement that the past agreement should be implemented and a solution should be found through talks and dialogue.

TU had created a department for these 4 subjects, run as a self-reliant program through its budget and programs. The agreement was reached after the revolutionaries protested for 34 days in Ashar, demanding a reduction in fees in line with the department's standards.