Cancelled Stan Swamy lecture to be held online | Mumbai News

Stan Swamy (PTI file picture)

MUMBAI:

The Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture, which was earlier cancelled by St Xavier’s College, will now be hosted by two social organisations – Samanvaya and People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). The lecture will be delivered by the identical speaker, Fr Prem Xalxo, SJ, affiliate lecturer, college of theology at Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and on the identical subject titled ‘Migration for livelihood: Hope amidst miseries’, which was deliberate for the unique occasion.The lecture will be delivered online by way of zoom on Sept 13. The lecture at St Xavier’s was additionally scheduled to be held online on Aug 9, to commemorate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.The cancellation at St Xavier’s College adopted a protest letter from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a pupil group affiliated with the RSS, opposing the lecture. The lecture, now being hosted by the 2 social teams, goals to proceed the dialogue on migration and livelihood and can be accessible to a wider viewers, the organisers stated.A member of one of many organisations informed TOI Fr Prem Xalxo has agreed to ship the identical lecture that was cancelled earlier. “Many of us were disappointed by the decision to cancel it following pressure from a student organization. We firmly believe a topic as important as migration and livelihood should be discussed. We, therefore, requested the speaker to deliver the same lecture,” stated the member, including extra organisations might take part to host the speaker.The letter from ABVP had alleged Fr Swamy was arrested within the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon violence case and was charged for having hyperlinks with Maoist outfits. ABVP demanded cancellation of the lecture, failing which the organisation would provoke a widespread pupil agitation.