After her 'no god is upper caste' remark stoked a controversy, JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on Wednesday clarified that she was just "paraphrasing" BR Ambedkar's views and questioned why an academic lecture was being politicised.

"I was asked to speak on BR Ambedkar's views on gender justice. I was paraphrasing BR Ambedkar. You can see his writings. Why should people get angry with me, they should get angry with BR Ambedkar. Why I am being pulled into it," she told PTI.