kolkata visvabharati has issued a rejoinder to noam chomsky and other educationists appeal to president droupadi murmu on behalf of terminated economics professor sudipta bhattacharyya it has mentioned the fact that most of the signatories are bengalis and are from jadavpur university which is a strange coincidencevisvabharati condemns the teachers who are organised to stop the process of purging visvabharati of truant and deviant teachers including professor sudipta bhattacharyyavisvabharati also anguishes to note that those signatories to the petition have signed without knowing the involvement of professor bhattacharyyas nefarious activities including avoidance of shouldering academic responsibilities that a teacher generally undertakes read the statement issued by the universitythe statement gave a list of endeavour that bhattacharyya undertook to undermine the academic freedom and tranquility of the campus criticising the initiative of the educationists the university said it is unfortunate that the selfproclaimed custodians and morally sensitive academics mainly from west bengal happily champion the blatant thuggery of a set of academicians in visvabharati kausik bhattacharya secretary of visvabharati university faculty association said the statement is filled with lies and fabricated stories partha pratim roy general secretary of juta said seeing the vb statement it feels like it is a crime to be a bengali and a teacher of ju parthiba basu executive member of cuta termed it as deplorable