Jawaharlal Nehru University on Tuesday gave a go ahead to the renaming of the university’s central library as BR Ambedkar library following demands from the ABVP. The ABVP which is locked in an ideological battle with the left-backed groups on campus had in April also demanded a statue of the architect of Indian Constitution be installed there.
The university’s library committee approved the proposal which was on Tuesday placed before the Executive Council, the statutory decision making body of the university. “The proposal was placed before the council today and was approved unanimously to rename the central library as BR Ambedkar library,” an EC member said.
The left-groups active on campus had termed the ABVP’s demands “ironic” alleging that “it’s weird on one hand the Government is terrorising students who pursue Ambedkarite politics, while its student wing on the other hand is hell bent upon appropriating Ambedkar”.