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‘IIT-Mandi director not fit to hold position’

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New Delhi, Sep 7: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said IIT-Mandi Director Laxmidhar Behera is not fit to hold the position after he purportedly claimed that cloudbursts and landslides in Himachal Pradesh are happening because people eat meat.
Sharing a news report on the statement made by Behera, Ramesh said on X that the longer he stays in office “more the damage he will do to the spirit of scientific temper”.
“The PM spoke of plastic surgery being known to our ancestors. He also told children climate has not changed, while we have. A senior Minister confused Newton and Einstein while another justified excluding Darwin from textbooks.
“Now, this simply flabbergasting statement from the Director of a prestigious institution!!! He actually has shown he is not fit to hold the position. The longer he stays, more the damage he will do to the spirit of scientific temper,” Ramesh posted.
Science and spirituality is one thing, but science and crackpot theories that are put out by people in positions of power is quite another, he said.
Laxmidhar Behera stirred a controversy after he asked students to take a pledge not to eat meat while claiming that landslides and cloudbursts in Himachal Pradesh are happening because of cruelty on animals. (PTI)

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