Prime Minister’s Office ‘Processing’ Complaint Against Vidyut Chakraborty

The Prime Minister’s Office is “processing” a complaint lodged by Santiniketan Trust, which accused Visva-Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty of making “obnoxious and derogatory remarks” against campus old-timers, alumni and local residents from a platform like Upasana Griha (prayer hall).

The PMO website shows the current status of the complaint as “under process”.

The Trust, founded by Rabindranath Tagore’s father Maharshi Debendranath Tagore in 1888, had urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to restrain the VC from making such remarks. The complaint also informed the PM, who is the varsity Chancellor, that the prayer hall was a Trust property.

Though the status merely shows the PMO’s acceptance of the complaint, Trust members are hoping for action against the VC.

“We are happy to know our complaint is being processed by the PMO….. No one before this VC had used the prayer hall to abuse old-timers and alumni,” said Anil Konar, the Trust’s honorary secretary.

Konar wrote to the PMO last month after a mass petition by around 200 people expressed anguish over the VC’s activities, especially several of his speeches at Upasana Griha.