AGRA: One of the 14 students of Aligarh Muslim University AMU ), who were booked on charges of sedition on Tuesday night in connection with the alleged assault on a TV journalist and BJP youth wing worker , claimed that he was in Delhi when the incident occurred.Talking to TOI, former president of AMU Students’ Union, Maskoor Usmani said, "I have been in Delhi for the past three days to support the ongoing students protests in Jamia Millia University and have been wrongly named in the FIR." He said this had exposed the agenda of the local administration and the police."I completely support my student union for the protest against the false FIR," he added.He said there has been a continuous campaign to defame the students and the educational institution by BJP-led government with the help of RSS and ABVP “goons”. Aligarh Muslim University is the main target of these goons.Usmani said that the series of attack in the university before every election is the testimony of the decisive and cheap politics of the BJP .Slapping sedition charges against the protesting students on the basis of baseless allegations shows their intentions of curbing student voices in the University. “I request PM Modi to kindly give tution classes to Aligarh BJP workers, so that next time they do homework before filling complaint for sedition charges,” he said.The FIR was registered on the basis of the complaint filed by BJP Yuva Morcha district president, Mukesh Lodhi, who claimed that anti-national slogans were raised by the accused students after an altercation.

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