AAP Teachers' Wing stages hunger strike against Delhi University's administration

"The AAP’s teachers' wing will take its struggle further to press for our demands. Of the 12,000 teachers in DU, 6,000 are ad-hoc and temporary teachers. The university administration is indulging in massive displacements and using all designs to subvert the policy of the Delhi Government for absorption,” said the national in-charge of AADTA, Aditya Narayan Misra.

The Aam Aadmi Party Teachers' Wing (AADTA) has organised a 12-hour hunger strike against the Delhi University administration. The hunger strike was staged in protest of the alleged deliberate delay in the formation of Governing Bodies (GBs) in Delhi’s 28 government colleges and the politicisation of the recruitment of teachers and principals at Delhi University (DU).

The strike was attended by the DU executive committee (EC) members, academic council (AC), finance committee and a large number of teachers. The AADTA has been demanding the absorption of ad-hoc and temporary teachers in the DU, which was supported by the former Education Minister Manish Sisodia.

However, the university administration has been using its nominees in GBs to recruit teachers and principals. "The AAP’s teachers' wing will take its struggle further to press for our demands. Of the 12,000 teachers in DU, 6,000 are ad-hoc and temporary teachers. The university administration is indulging in massive displacements and using all designs to subvert the policy of the Delhi Government for absorption,” said the national in-charge of AADTA, Aditya Narayan Misra.

“As many as 70 to 75 per cent of teachers will get displaced because of the university’s current recruitment process. We will not allow the agenda of politicising GB formation and recruitment to succeed in DU," he said.

In a series of letters in January-February 2023, Manish Sisodia asserted that there was a “wilful delay” in the formation of GBs.

The AADTA alleged that the university administration was making all efforts to evade accountability to the elected government and rushing to finish the task of massive displacements before they were forced to observe the university's law and induct Delhi Government nominees.

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