Students film NCP minister Gavit swearing at them in office

After NCP leader Ajit Pawar’s ‘urinate’ remark, minister for medical education Dr Vijaykumar Gavit has allegedly been caught on camera using foul language against students . Gavit was caught using profane language when students from Jamnlal Goenka Dental College, Akola approached him to help them continue their course as their college had lost its affiliation. According to a report by The Times of India, the dental college students, Akshay Trimukhe and Sarang Waghmare started recording the minister’s behaviour on their mobile phone. According to them, one of the minister’s bodyguards intervened and allegedly hit them to stop them from recording any more. [caption id=“attachment_708524” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A screen grab from the video. IBN[/caption] A former professor of medicine who represents the tribal-dominated Nandurbar constituency in the state assembly, Gavit was also seen shooing the students away from his office in Mantralaya in the video. “Didn’t I tell you to leave? Are you leaving or not? Otherwise I won’t even do what is possible for me,” Gavit is heard telling the students in the video, along with uttering swear words and asking them if they were ‘acting smart’, according to a DNA report. Even as the students ask him not to swear and say that they have come to him seeking sympathy, Gavit tells them to go away. The minister is heard telling the students that he has no powers to accommodate them in other colleges, even when the students point out that the State Government has the authority. The minister also dared the students to go the court and file a case of contempt. After their college failed to get affiliation from the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences due to a lack of facilities, the students had sought to be accommodated in other dental colleges, as directed by the court. The court had ordered the government to move the students, who had already lost a year in February, to other colleges and conduct their exams in May.