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AMU tussle: BJP calls-off protest over proposed event
Aligarh, Nov 29 (IBNS): The stand-off between the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seems to be ending with the party deciding to call off the protest planned.
This comes after Vice Chancellor Lt Gen Zameeruddin Shah gave his assent to hold a seminar of Raja Mahendra Pratap on his birth anniversary.
"The VC has agreed to do a seminar. We are satisfied with it and have decided not to hold a protest outside the campus, we will hold celebrations near the statue," BJP MP Satish Gautam was quoted as saying by CNN-IBN channel.
Earlier, the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) wrote to Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani warning of a potential “communal conflagration” in the campus over an event planned by local BJP activists on Monday.
Shah had opposed to the local BJP unit’s plan to mark the birth anniversary of Jat leader and freedom fighter Raja Mahendra Pratap inside the campus on Dec 1.
Sources said that Shah wrote that the celebrations have “potential of leading to massive student unrest on the AMU campus… The majority of AMU students are annoyed with this intransigence.”
He also met leaders of the BJP and its student wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in an attempt to defuse the situation.
Shah had requested the BJP activists to shift its celebrations to a patch of land near the campus. But the party activists insisted on a venue within the AMU campus.
Expressing deep concern over the issue, the vice-chancellor had said that a rival political party had also announced that they would not allow the event to take place within the campus triggering speculations of a confrontation.
However, the BJP accused the university authorities of ignoring the contributions of Raja Mahendra Pratap - an alumnus who donated land to AMU.
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