Tension has been brewing in the Puducherry University campus with the BJP and ABVP accusing the Student Council magazine ‘Wider Stand’ of carrying ‘anti-national’ content.

On Monday evening, BJP member Swaminathan along with 100 others held a protest in public glare where copies of the magazine were burnt. With protests on Monday and threats of more protests in the future, the university has clamped down on the magazine, banning its distribution.



“We have banned distributing the magazine and we have sealed the student council office,” the Assistant Registrar said. On Tuesday, student council members, largely constituting of SFI members, found the council room which housed copies of the journal sealed.

In the journal, an article pledged active support on behalf of the varsity students for student movements in JNU, IIT Madras, FTII and Hyderabad university. There was also a page dedicated in memory of HCU student Rohith Vemula, three girl students from the Villupuram SVS college and Ajith Kumar, a Dalit engineering student from St Joseph’s College in Kanchipuram, calling them ‘victims of institutional murders’.