Aligarh Muslim University: AMUSU demands cancellation of BJP MP’s court membership

Aligarh: Secretary Students’ Union of Aligarh Muslim University Huzaifa Aamir has written a letter to AMU Visitor and President of India Ramnath Kovind and demanded cancellation of MP Satish Gautam’s membership of AMU Court. He said Satish Gautam should be replaced by an educated, sincere MP. He announced that the said MP will not be allowed to attend the Court meeting to be held on December 2. The Aligarh Muslim University Students’ Union (AMUSU) accused the BJP MP from Aligarh, of attempting to “sully” the name of the institution by making baseless charges against it.

BJP MP Satish Gautam had reportedly alleged that the AMU administration was being run on “Talibani ideology”.

According to sources on the hoarding installed for the publicity of a drama to be staged on November 18, had by mistake an incomplete map of India. On which the BJP MP, in a letter to the AMU vice-chancellor, had alleged that the recent incident of putting up a poster showing the map of India sans Jammu and Kashmir on the campus proved that the university was breeding “anti-nationals”.

Huzaifa Aamir, the AMUSU secretary, told reporters that Gautam was “fanning communalism and vitiating the country’s atmosphere for political gains”.