Guwahati: Ajay Kumar Dubey, the rector of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has resigned following a series of protests by the ABVP, an organisation linked with the RSS.
An official circular dated August 29 said that Prof. Ajay Kumar Dubey had resigned from the position of Rector of the University and that the resignation had been accepted by the appropriate authority with immediate effect.
A group of teachers and students had accused Dubey of corruption and were calling for his resignation.
The ABVP has been staging protests for the last several days against him.
JNU Rector has stepped down. Rector had organised lethal attacks on students who were requesting fellowships, harassed female coworkers, and was engaged in running NGOs illegally, ABVP state media convenor Ambuj said as reported by PTI.