RSS affiliate in new row at AMU with demand for honouring Jat royal on campus

  • | Sunday | 29th October, 2017

On condition of anonymity, a senior official said, "The student has created an unnecessary controversy, showing AMU in a bad light." "University registrar Javaid Akhtar said, "The names of all the people who had donated land for the institution are displayed in the university." However, he added that he was not sure about display of pictures.AMU authorities are however contemplating strict action against Ansari who started the row. The recent war of words between the university's student body leaders and the DJS over the visit of UP minister Sandeep Singh at Khan's birth bicentenary celebrations in the campus on October 17 has rekindled the controversy. The issue has the potential to spark communal polarisation in the campus, which has a volatile history.Admitting that he had posted the morphed picture of Khan as retaliation to Ansari's derogatory post on Mahendra Singh, DJS's local convenor Saurabh Chaudhary said, "When they can have photographs of Khan, why can't pictures of Mahendra Singh, who donated his land for the university, be displayed there?

AGRA: A new controversy has erupted in Aligarh Muslim University with the Dharma Jagran Samanvay (DJS), an RSS affiliate, demanding that a photograph of Jat royal and freedom fighter Mahendra Pratap Singh , who is said to have donated land for the construction of the university, be displayed there prominently, and to be given "due respect at par with" the university's founder, Syed Ahmad Khan.In November 2014, the BJP had unsuccessfully tried to celebrate Mahendra Singh's birth anniversary on the university's campus. The recent war of words between the university's student body leaders and the DJS over the visit of UP minister Sandeep Singh at Khan's birth bicentenary celebrations in the campus on October 17 has rekindled the controversy. What started with AMU Students Union (AMUSU) ex-vice president Nadeem Ansari allegedly posting a morphed derogatory picture of Sandeep Singh on his Facebook wall has blown into a full-fledged online battle with DJS retaliating by posting a morphed picture of Khan and circulating it on social media.Though police have booked the perpetrators of both derogatory posts, DJS has now raised the demand of displaying Mahendra Singh's photo in the university campus. The issue has the potential to spark communal polarisation in the campus, which has a volatile history.Admitting that he had posted the morphed picture of Khan as retaliation to Ansari's derogatory post on Mahendra Singh, DJS's local convenor Saurabh Chaudhary said, "When they can have photographs of Khan, why can't pictures of Mahendra Singh, who donated his land for the university, be displayed there?"University registrar Javaid Akhtar said, "The names of all the people who had donated land for the institution are displayed in the university." However, he added that he was not sure about display of pictures.AMU authorities are however contemplating strict action against Ansari who started the row. On condition of anonymity, a senior official said, "The student has created an unnecessary controversy, showing AMU in a bad light."

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