A BJP MP has asked the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) not to allow its students to follow in the footsteps of their JNU counterparts or give permission to them to hold any “anti-BJP” or “anti-national” function on the campus. In a letter to Vice-Chancellor Lt Gen (Retd) Zameer Uddin Shah, Satish Gautam, the Aligarh MP, has said that in recent weeks the AMU has witnessed several events, which were “anti-government and anti-BJP” in their content. “Recently, the university has been inviting only those personalities for conferences and seminars who are known for their anti-BJP views,” reads the letter signed by Gautam, who is also a member of the AMU Court — the university’s supreme governing body. Watch Video: What Transpired In Delhi HC Before JNU students Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya Surrendered The letter states that such guests had “divisive mindset” and discussions in such events get diverted from the “original subject and turn into a stage for opposing the Centre, Sangh and BJP”. “If the subject is found to be anti-national and anti-government, the university administration should turn down the permission for holding such programme,” the letter read. It claimed that “everybody knows that the recent agitation at JNU” was at the behest of “anti-national” elements and people were also aware of the attempts being made to spread “similar sentiments” in other universities of the country. Gautam, who had in 2014, led a protest demanding celebration of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh’s birth anniversary on AMU campus, has asked the V-C to ensure that politicisation of the university is not done. The V-C, however, said he does not think anything new has taken place in the campus and “none of the protests which took place had any anti-national connotation to them”.
