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A day after AMU students union accused the Vice-Chancellor of succumbing to “pressure of BJP government” by deciding to hold a seminar on Raja Mahendra Pratap, the latter Sunday rejected the charge as a “misconception”.
“Some sections of the university community may harbour the misconception that I took this decision on Friday under pressure from the central government. This is patently false,” V-C Zameer Uddin Shah said.
He said the decision to hold the seminar springs entirely from “my intent to highlight those heroes of India’s freedom movement whose contributions have been forgotten by us today”. Shah said the seminar will be be held “at AMU at an early date despite some reservations on this move by some student leaders”.
The students’ union had Saturday passed a resolution terming the V-C’s decision as arbitrary and one that was “taken to please the leaders of a particular party”. AMUSU president Abdullah Azzam had said they were not opposed to the seminar, “but fear that the NDA government is trying to erode the autonomy of this institution. This is something which spells danger not only for the AMU.”
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