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Govt has double standard on UGC membership

When the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry removed psephologist Yogendra Yadav as member of the University Grants Commission (UGC) earlier this month stating that his association with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) “may not only set a dangerous precedent but may even give scope for future politicisation of the UGC and its academic decision making”, it failed to mention Subhash Yadav, former deputy Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, who was, more than a decade back, made a member of the body while he was an active politician.

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