New Delhi, April 6 -- The JNUSU had written to the DCP seeking action on the VC based on the media reports that two complaints of caste abuse have been lodged against the Vice-Chancellor of JNU, Santishree D Pandit, because of her remarks on a podcast published by a newspaper.

According to the complaints, the Vice-Chancellor made statements between the timestamps of 46:20 and 47:14 of the podcast to the effect that Dalits, akin to other oppressed groups, engage in "permanent victimhood" and "playing the victim card." She further likened such social realities to a "temporary type of drug" and suggested that such oppression is an "imaginary" construct.

Such utterances from the highest executive authority of the University gravely undermin...