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Agra: Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) vice chancellor and its students’ union in unison welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to scrap a petition seeking to change the name of the varsity. The apex court on Monday dismissed a plea which sought to change the name of AMU. “You want us to do that,” asked Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi while trashing the plea.It all started when a University Grants Commission (UGC) audit panel had suggested dropping words Muslim from AMU and Hindu from Banaras Hindu University in 2017. “I honour the decision of the apex court,” he said.Expressing happiness over the court’s judgment, Secretary of AMU’s students union, Huzaifa Amir said, “It is a slap on the faces of those who had been indulging in petty politics over this issue. The court has now put a full stop to all such demands.”In response to the suggestions of the UGC panel, the then university Registrar Javaid Akhtar had written a letter to the UGC saying that dropping the word ‘Muslim’ would deprive the university of its unique historical character..