Mangalore:  The Akhila Bharathiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged protest in front St Aloysius College on June 20, Wednesday to condemn the indifferent behavior of St. Aloysius PU College toward one of its old students who was termed as “unsatisfactory” in his conduct certificate.

Addressing the protestors, Ramesh K., ABVP state secretary said that J. K. Bindu Madav Tilak has studied BSBA at St. Aloysius PU College from June 16, 2010 to March 31, 2012 and has attendance of over 75 percent in all subjects, but his active involvement in ABVP has made the college to give his conduct certificate as “unsatisfactory”.

The Mangalore University has given the autonomous permission to the college, but now the students are suffering in their life. Hence he urged the Vice Chancellor of Mangalore University to cancel the autonomous and give justice to students and take action against the college, he said.

City Secretary of ABVP Chinmay Rai said that Tilak was an honest student and an ABVP activist, he said that he had actively participated in Hazare’s anti-corruption movement. He paid the fees on time and never had any attendance shortage. In spite of this, the college has termed his character as “unsatisfactory” in his conduct certificate just because he is associated with the ABVP and has taken part in the anti-corruption movement. He said that the ABVP condemns this unjust act on the part of the college.

Further, he said that when Anna Hazare had launched his anti-corruption movement in 2011 – 12, several students of St. Aloysius College took part in the protest with students of other colleges across the city. But the principal of St. Aloysius College had warned students not to take part in the protest. In spite of this, a number of students protested against corruption. The principal, who checked video footages of the protest, identified some of these students and began taking action against them.

Further, he alleged that the college has gotten into the habit of receiving huge amounts of money from students for courses that have not been approved by the university.

The ABVP demanded the college to issue a proper conduct certificate to Mr. Tilak and that the Mangalore University must revoke the “autonomous” status given to the college.