Sacking Amartya Sen from Nalanda University, replacement of the foreign secretary who still had six months to go with a man who was about to retire, change of the DRDO chief 15 months ahead of the expiry of his contract, and the appointment of Pahlaj Nihalani, who had called Prime Minister Modi as his hero, as the head of the censor board. And the most ridiculous was the appointment of an unknown actor as the head of the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) whose credentials were his miniscreen portrayal of the Mahabharata character Yudhishthira and an old BJP card.
The HRD minister Smriti Irani has filled leading institutions with RSS men. Vishram Ramchandra Jamdar as the head of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur: Professor Inder Mohan Kapahy as a member of the University Grants Commission (UGC); Baldev Sharma, former editor of RSS mouthpiece Panchajanya, as chairman of National Book Trust and Professor Y Sudershan Rao as the chairperson of the Indian Council for Historical Research (ICHR).
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