St Xavier's principal courts controversy over advisory against Gujarat model

It acknowledges Congress's Food Security and Rojgar Yojana schemes. Efforts like the Rojgar Yojana and the Food Security Act have been called "election sops", it said adding "some of our best social scientists like Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze have supported these as necessary in the emergency economic situation the country and the world is facing."

The note advises students not to support leaders who are a threat to secular fabric of India. "The prospect of an alliance of corporate capital and communal forces coming to power constitutes a real threat to the future of our secular democracy.

Meanwhile, when asked why he had sent out such a mail during elections, he told a newspaper, "I have given some considerations for evaluating the (Gujarat) model and also talked about other models, like the Congress government....I am trying to be as impartial as possible; it is my responsibility to encourage my students to vote.

"The 'Gujarat Model' is being discussed in every media as a successful model and I am throwing light on what I think, which also needs to be looked at," he said.