BJP accuses Delhi University Vice Chancellor of committing fraud on students

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing row over the four-year undergraduate programme, BJP today accused the Delhi University Vice Chancellor of committing a "fraud" on the students and said the guilty be punished.

The party also charged Congress ministers in the previous regime of either being "incompetent" in not detecting the fraud or for being part of it.

"It is a fraud which has been done on the students and a fraud which is being protected now by the Congress party," BJP leader Siddharth Nath Singh said.

He said the facts about something which the VC has done are unambiguous as neither the approval of the President, who is Visitor of the university is there, nor is the approval of the UGC.

"As per the Ordinance of December 26, 2012 where out of 44 courses which are being spoken about, only two of them have an approval for four-years programme and that is for 80 seats. The students who are suffering are 80,000. So it is not a valid programme.

"It is an illegal programme and two Congress ministers Kapil Sibal and Pallam Raju have supported the programme. They have misled Parliament and they have misled the students. They have not been able to justify why such a programme was there. Or they should have detected that the VC is misleading," he said.

The BJP leader said the government is sensitive about the issue and it is taking appropriate action so that one year of students does not go waste and in future this programme is not there.