Navaniti Prasad Singh, J.

Pursuant to notice issued, the additional fourth respondent is personally present in the Court. He is about 20 years of age. He is a Computer Science student of the college concerned and is the Secretary of the SFI Union of the College. The first thing which crosses our mind is whether he goes to the college to indulge in politics or to study, a question which he and his parents must consider, for we hold that in academic institutions, politics or political activities cannot be permitted.

2. The next, we would like to observe is that political activities like Dharna, hunger strikes and other practices like Sathyagrah have no place in a constitutional democracy, much less in academic institutions. Anyone indulging in the said activities in an educational institution would make himself liable to be expelled and/or rusticated. Educational Institutions are meant for imparting education and not politics. By their political ambition the political parties cannot hold to ransom the educational institution or the right of the civilized students to receive education. We would only remind ourselves of what Dr. B.R. Ambedkar had said while introducing the Cons