Times of India (7 May 2007) and Gujarati daily Sandesh (9 May 2007) mentioned that the works of art created by the students of the faculty as a part of their Annual Examination were open for public display on 9 May 2007.
[1] Among the earliest to protest was the district superintendent of the Methodist Church in Baroda, Reverend Emmanuel Kant[2] He said,[3] A group of irate Hindus, led by Niraj Jain, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activist, accompanied by local police,[4] also came into the exhibition venue.
The two objectionable painting were described by University Vice-Chancellor Manoj Soni as:[5] He has stated that "My aim is to show the purity, truth and reality in human beings using the images of god and goddesses.
[9] Throughout the controversy the Indian art community rallied to Chandramohan's cause, claiming that the closing of the exhibition and his arrest was a direct assault of the rights of freedom of expression.
[10] A group of students and artists at MSU Baroda sought to stage a protest demonstration at the Faculty of Fine Arts by organising an exhibition of photographs taken from the classical and explicitly erotic sculptures that adorn the Khajuraho temples in Madhya Pradesh.