Shivaji Panikar- suspended Dean of Faculty of Fine Arts
VADODARA:
Vice Chancellor of Maharaja Sayajirao University Mr. Manoj Soni has suspended the Fine Arts department dean Mr. Shivaji Panikar for refusing to obey the orders for closing a controversial art exhibition.
After receiving a complaint from BJP leader Neeraj Jain, local police arrested Chandra Mohan, a student from the Department of Graphics at the Fine Arts College for allegedly making obscene paintings of Hindu deities and Jesus Christ and hurting religious sentiments. Chandra Mohan has been charged with sections 153 and 114 as well as sections 295 A and 295 B. He is presently in Central Jail, Baroda and has been denied bail. As informed by the university officers, a group of BJP activists stormed into the exhibition hall and vandalised some of the paintings.
Chandra Mohan
As per the report on NDTV website, Members of the Fine Arts Faculty have gone on a mass casual leave in support of the suspended Dean, Shivaji Panikkar.
(- Hearty congratulations to Vice Chancellor Manoj Soni for taking immediate action against Panikar!
– Congratulations to BJP activist for teaching a lesson to Chandra Mohan for his obscene paintings! What action BJB is going to take against MF Hussain who has hunted religious sentiments by painting obscene paintings of Hindu deities?
– Proud Hindu should question members of the Fine Arts Faculty for supporting Panikar. – Editor)
Source: ‘ Daily Sanatan Prabhat
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