FTII administration has sought police protection for the campus
Actress and Congress leader Nagma meets students at FTII in Pune on Tuesday (Photo: PTI)
New Delhi/Pune: The FTII administration here has sought police “protection” for the campus following an incident in which a symbolic protest installation put up by the agitating students was vandalised outside the main gate.
Prashant Pathrabe, the newly appointed director of Film and Television Institute of India that is hit by a strike by students demanding removal of TV actor Gajendra Chauhan as chairman, on Tuesday said a symbolic formation of a big “question mark” installed by the students in front of the gate was found vandalised on Sunday night.
“I spoke to police authorities about the incident and they agreed to provide protection as and when required,” he said. No police complaint has been filed about the incident.
Pathrabe, currently director of Press Information Bureau (PIB) Pune division, took additional charge as director of FTII last week after expiry of the term of his predecessor D.J. Narain.
“I have advised the students to be flexible on their main demand,” the director said. Meanwhile, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi met agitating students of FTII on Tuesday.
Students sought the intervention of Gandhi to check the “assault on institutions of higher learning” by the NDA government. Sources in Congress said that the students have invited Gandhi to come to Pune and support their cause.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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