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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

AMU Losing Minority Character?

AMU's Minority Character Case is in the Supreme Court of India. The next date of hearing in the Supreme Court is fixed for 3rd August, 2010. Do the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar have answers to following questions?
1. Is AMU going to continue with Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, the Advocate-on-Record? One may recall that Mr. Ejaz Maqbool had admitted his "fault" (if at all it could be called a fault), and despite it, the Deputy Registrar (Legal Affairs), has already been suspended, without any fault, is absolutely clear by now. Has his suspension been revoked?
2. Who is going to replace Mr Ejaz Maqbool? And, whether the replacement has been provided with all the literature (which runs in around 3000 pages, including 12 volumes of literature of the Government on the issue). After all, the new advocate (who will replace Mr Ejaz Maqbool) has to be given enough time to study and prepare the arguments.
There is a need of thorough and careful reading and re-reading of 72 cases of last four decades in relation to the minority educational institutions of the country. Besides, critical understanding of the two judgments of the Allahabad High Court in the light of the AMU Admission Policy and procedure are equally most important. Many original records are in Urdu, Arabic and Persian- a non-Muslim advocate requires more time to understand and grasp it.
3. Who will brief the new advocates about the technicalities and history of AMU? Is the present Registrar competent enough, at least to explain what the finer points of contentions in the civil appeals before them. He has already been asked by an alumnus, A.G. Danish to undergo rigorous Refresher Course. Thanks to the Registrar's remarkable abilities.
4. It has passed more than two months from the last hearing/ happening? Is it not showing another callous attitude of the Vice-Chancellor and Registrar in sitting over the matter and not a single announcement is coming to the public, except victimization in the name of the minority case? Again, are they planning for another adjournment with the new group of advocates due to lack of time and preparedness? In that case, will the VC suspend himself or his beloved and 'competent' Registrar?
5. As of now, the VC's sole frantic preoccupation is to hiring an advocate/ chartered accountant to defend himself before the ongoing two judge inquiry into the allegations of most outrageous and unprecedented financial and other irregularities in which the VC-Registrar-F.O. stand indicted at least by the Principal Accountant General (November 2009). Mr. Kamal Faruqi is 'paid' to act as messiah of the VC, whose own 'wonderful' credentials are well known to a good section of people in Delhi.
In short, the VC’s priority is to save himself, the AMU's minority character case is nowhere on his agenda, as of now? I may kindly be corrected.

Seriousness, sincerity, commitment, ability and intentions of the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar in the preparedness for fighting the case of AMU's Minority matter in the Supreme Court is satisfactory? Should not it be taken as a wake-up call? Time is running too short.

Dollar/ Pound earning enlightened, self-righteous, all-knowing alumni (now consultants on special centres) should be able to show their capabilities in making the VC alert on the issue. After all, they gave him a red-carpet welcome overlooking his credentials (of corruption, repression, plagiarism) in the CUSAT.

Hats-off to those insiders who empanelled such a man!

Hats-off to the bureaucracy of the Union Ministry of HRD and that of the Visitor!

AMU's minority character zindabad, and VC Azis ?????baad.

Rahey naam Allah ka

ZAFAR KHAN
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