New Delhi:
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha strongly criticized the recent decision of US President Donald Trump to bar Harvard University from nominating international students, and claimed that the move threatens the future of international students, especially at Harvard University.
Taking on social media, Mr. Chadha wrote, “The recent move of President Trump threatens the dreams and futures of the international students. As a glorious member of the Harvard community, I wear to include my colors and show support for educational freedom.”
Mr. Chadha, an alumni at Harvard University, expressed solidarity with the students affected by the policy. He said, “I stand with @harvard and all international students, whose dreams and futures are in danger. We should defend educational freedom and global cooperation,” he said.
The recent move of President Trump threatens the dreams and futures of Harvard and beyond international students. As a proud member of the Harvard community, I wear to include my colors and show support for educational freedom. I stand with @Harvard And all international students… pic.twitter.com/dCPS6YR227
– raghav chadha (@raghav_chadha) May 23, 2025
Meanwhile, the university condemned the decision as both illegal and unfair and said the decision “removes the future of thousands of students and scholars.”
The university has filed a legal complaint and announced a plan to find a temporary preventive order as it pursues all available measures. In a statement issued on Friday, Harvard University President K. De said, “Yesterday, the federal government announced that it has canceled Harvard’s certification under the student and exchange visitor program (SEVP) and has snatched its authority to sponsor its authority for international students for 2025-26 academic years. Prefering the illegal status of our culture and our students to control our students and federal governments to sponge its authority. To do
Reckoning his international community, Harvard emphasized his commitment to defend educational freedom and promised to support the people affected by the decision.
It said, “We condemn this illegal and unfair action. It affects the futures of thousands of students and scholars in Harvard and acts as a warning for countless others in colleges and universities across the country, who have come to America to pursue their education. Scholars.
Further statement said that the government has claimed that its disastrous action is based on failure to follow the requests of the US Department of Homeland Security for Harvard information.
“In fact, Harvard responded to the requests of the department as required by the law. For those international students and scholars affected by tomorrow’s action, know that you are important members of our community. You are our classmates and friends, our colleagues and friends, our partner in this great institution work. Our partner in the work of this great institution. Harvard’s statement is open to the world.
Earlier on Thursday, the White House said, “Enrollment of foreign students is a privilege, not a right.” It accused the Harvard leadership of “its one-time-baron institution of anti-American, anti-Jewish, terrorism-supporting agitators into a hotband.”
In a statement by CNN, White House spokesman Abigail Jackson said, “They have failed to take action to address the widespread problems that negatively affect American students and now they will have to face the results of their actions.”
Harvard and Trump administration have been engaged in a struggle for months as the administration demands that the university changes the programming of the institution, hiring on-campus antisementism and hiring and removing the administration practices of “racist” diversity, equity and inclusion. ,
The administration has targeted foreign students and employees, believing that it was part of the protest against the controversial campus on the Israeli-Hamas war.
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