New Delhi, March 5 -- The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA) on Thursday demanded the removal of Vice-Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit over her purported remarks on a podcast, dismissing the UGC regulations and alleged casteist undertones in her statements.

In a letter addressed to the Minister of Education, Dharmendra Pradhan, JNUTA questioned the Ministry and the Central Government's position over the VC's remarks and the detention of the university students protesting against it.

JNUTA also raised questions over the VC's alleged political allegiance to the Union government and her attribution of it as the reason for her appointment to the position. It further questioned the government's silence after the ...