A day after scrapping the controversial government order on closing schools on Fridays to facilitate Muslims to offer prayers, the UP government today constituted an integral university, which would reserve upto 50 per cent seats for students belonging to the minority community.The bill was passed by the Vidhan Sabha by voice vote despite opposition from BJP members.The university would be set up after dissolving a voluntary organisation, Islamic Council for Productive Education Society, which runs schools, colleges, including a technical institute in Lucknow.Demanding that the bill be sent to the select committee of the house, BJP member Hukum Singh said setting up a university with preference to minority community was against the spirit of the Constitution. Replying to the charges, CM Mulayam Singh Yadav said there is no attempt to break the society on the religious lines. ‘‘We bridge the chasm between two communities so that people can live in peace and brotherhood,’’ he said.
