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Rahul Gandhi after interacting with FTII students said that government should hold dialogue with students and try to solve the issue.
He, earlier on Friday, backed students’ protest and said that appointment of Gajendra Chauhan is RSS ideology to continuously promote mediocre people.
Rahul Gandhi also promised students at FTII that he will raise the issue in Parliament.
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He also added that government is not cooperating with students demand. On being aksed to comment on controversial ‘anti-nation’, ‘anti-Hindu’ comment, he said, “making movies is not ‘anti-nation’, I am proud of these students and work they do.”
On the 50th Day of FTII protest on Friday by students against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan, Rahul Gandhi visited the campus to support agitating students.
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FTII students’ association (FSA) who is leading the protest has declared that the strike will continue till their main demand for removal of Chauhan – who they allege lacks vision and stature to head FTII.
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Earlier FTII students had written to him seeking his intervention to check the “assault on institutions of higher learning”.
Sources said responding to the invitation, Gandhi had decided to go to Pune and support their cause.
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FTII students are on strike against Chouhan’s appointment and several filmmakers have supported them on the issue.
Students have continued their strike for almost 40 days, boycotting academic work after failure of their talks with Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley in New
Delhi on July 3.
In a letter to Gandhi, the President of FTII Students Association Harishankar Nachimuthu had said the appointment of Chouhan has raised question over the process of appointments in the institute and sought his intervention to resolve the “crisis” in the FTII, the sources said.
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