Naming a gymnasium after actress Tapsee Pannu at the Kanya Gurukul of the Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya has elicited protests.
While the actress had visited Haridwar earlier to shoot for a film she had visited the university where the vice chancellor Rook Kishor had announced that a gym would be named after her.
Locals have objected to the gym being named after the actress in the Kanya Gurukul campus. Priest Ujjwal Pandit said that the inauguration of the gym in the name of an actress who has been in controversy is condemnable.
The facility should have been named after any of the great personalities who have passed out from this university or other inspirational figures.
Former president Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya students union Vikram Bhullar said that this is shameful and protests will be staged if the name of the gym is not changed.
When contacted by this correspondent for his view, the university vice chancellor rejected the objections.
He said that one should rather talk about coronavirus now. However, when asked again for his views on the controversy, he disconnected the phone.