Lucknow Prof Manhandled Over Comments On Varanasi Temple-Mosque Issue

Visuals from the university showed students raising slogans against professor Ravi Kant Chandan and demanding action against him for the comments

An associate professor of Hindi at Lucknow University was heckled today by members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's student wing ABVP over his comments on the Kashi Vishwanath temple-Gyanvapi mosque controversy in a debate hosted on a social media platform.

Visuals from the university showed students raising slogans against professor Ravi Kant Chandan and demanding action against him for the comments.

A video shared on social media purportedly showed students shouting, "Desh ke gaddaron ko...goli maaro s***** ko (shoot dead traitors)" - a controversial slogan raised on the past by BJP supporters and even a Union Minister.

In the debate, Ravi Kant had quoted a story from a book called "Feathers and Stones" by Pattabhi Sitaramayya, an independence activist and political leader from Andhra Pradesh, about why Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi was demolished by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.