Irani 'humiliated' Shevgaonkar: AAP

The Aam Aadmi Party today accused HRD Minister Smriti Irani of "humiliating" IIT Delhi Director Raghunath K S Shevgaonkar and said the BJP was "misleading" the country over the issue.
Shevgaonkar has resigned with more than two years of his tenure left amid a controversy over the circumstances under which he quit including alleged pressure put on him by the Human Resources Development Ministry.
Shevgaonkar sent his resignation in a letter to Chairman of IIT Board of Governors Vijay P Bhatkar on Friday evening in which he cited "personal reasons".
AAP said that BJP's "unjustified political interference" is trampling the autonomy of the top institutions for professional and technical education.

"The Aam Aadmi Party challenges the human resources development minister to answer the following two questions. Is it not a fact that she had recently summoned the IIT Delhi director ?
"Is it not a fact that impolite language was used against such a senior professor and is it also not fact that he was humiliated in that meeting?" the party said in a statement.

The party alleged that the BJP was hell bent on imposing its "dangerous agenda" on the nation.
"Ranging from the removal of the Chief Vigilance Officer of AIIMS to the shocking resignation of the IIT Delhi Director, the entire government appears hell bent on imposing its dangerous agenda on the nation.

"The HRD ministry had no right to interfere in the functioning of this autonomous institution and the matter should have been referred to its board of governors. The ministry in particular, appears to have made it a habit to create a controversy on a weekly basis," the statement added.