By Ashoka University students’ union has called off its six-day strike after the vice-chancellor and the founders of the institute accepted their demands including allowing their representative to join the Board of Management (BoM) meetings.
The students were protesting against the resignations of professors Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramanian last week. The protests continued even as the two issued a statement on Sunday along with the university acknowledging “lapses in institutional processes”. The students also boycotted classes on Monday and Tuesday.
“Over the last week, we have observed the power and impact of collective action. We witnessed a strong sense of community that emerged for one of the first times since we went online. We sincerely thank you for your undeterred support and resilience for the past 6 days. We sincerely appreciate your participation in the protest. With the Vice Chancellor’s email today morning, we are officially closing the strike,” the union said in a statement issued late on Wednesday.
