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Viswa Sadasivan speaking during an episode of Inconvenient Questions. (Screengrab: YouTube/NUSS)
20 Feb 2021 10:40PM) Share this content
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SINGAPORE: The National University of Singapore (NUS) said on Saturday (Feb 20) that it has discontinued all projects with former Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) Viswa Sadasivan and his company Strategic Moves.
This is in light of allegations of sexual harassment made by two women against Mr Viswa earlier this month.
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Mr Viswa has also stepped down as a member of the NUS Alumni Advisory Board.
Days after news broke that Viswa Sadasivan, CEO of PR firm Strategic Moves
, made an inappropriate remark to comedian Sharul Channa, Sadasivan has spoke up once again. This time he left a comment on women’s advocacy group AWARE s Facebook post, which urged Sadasivan to denounce the victim-blaming comments that Channa has received, after speaking out about the incident. Sadasivan said in the comment on the post that some important points have been made by the organisation, and what AWARE is asking for is reasonable. I do urge that we desist from using extreme language in putting down views expressed by Channa, Kandade and others in this Facebook page. In fact, I urge that we all use this opportunity to hear each other without the need to suspend civility. Personally, this episode has been a learning experience, Sadasivan said. He added that he appreciated the AWARE stepped in with sensitivity and temperance . Although Sadasivan denounced the act of direct victim-blaming c