Varsity Court ‘patently illegal’: AMUTA

The AMU Teachers’ Association (AMUTA) today passed a resolution stating the proposed meeting of the university court is patently illegal because it is taking place without the requisite thirty-five day notice and without the release of the agenda papers on time.

“AMU teachers would use all peaceful forms of protest to oppose the holding of this meeting,” AMUTA President Professor Mukhtar Ahmad said.

“We will exercise our democratic right to protest against the brazen flouting of norms and regulations by the Vice Chancellor and his coterie. We have also appealed to the students not to get carried away by their anger against the Vice Chancellor but to continue their peaceful Gandhian protest which they have been doing since the past ten weeks now,” Professor Ahmad and Secretary of AMUTA Jamshed Siddique said.

“The meeting is taking place despite the fact that there are no student representatives and there are a total number of forty vacancies in the Court which are liable to be filled up barely four weeks later on the directive of the Allahabad High Court,” Siddique told reporters.

He also alleged that the entire election process was being hustled through by the university administration to manipulate the elections in their favour.

“We all know that if an impartial person is appointed as the University’s next Chancellor then all the skeletons in the cupboard will come out tumbling,” he said,adding it is now for the Union HRD Ministry to decide whether they wish to preserve this historic seat of learning or whether they wish to give a free hand to vested interests.

Meanwhile,security measures in and around the AMU campus have been tightened in the wake of the meeting.