Obscene, Misogynistic Messages Being Circulated After Decision on Offline Exams: Calcutta University VC

Calcutta University vice-chancellor Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee has alleged that some obscene and misogynistic messages and social media posts are being circulated against her following the varsity authorities’ collective decision to conduct semester exams in the UG level on offline mode, and said such abuses cannot be tolerated. The VC did not want to elaborate on the matter when contacted, while a university official said she was sent a screenshot of a message of a student of an affiliated college, asking all friends and class mates to rush to the CU College Street campus with arms to vandalise properties of the institute as the authorities did not give in to their demand for online tests. Several messages and social media posts against the VC have been circulated in the public domain by a section of protestors in the last few days after the university syndicate unanimously decided to hold offline tests and take special classes for certain subjects if the syllabus was not completed, the official said. The VC in her statement said, “Some of the messages/social media posts that are circulating in the public domain and/or coming to me from/on behalf of some persons who are against the university’s collective and consensual decision to conduct examinations offline, are nothing but violent and hateful, and some of them are also obscene and misogynistic.” “I condemn such illegal and unethical and foul tactics,” she added.