Muslim Face of UPA Rejected by Aligarh Muslim University Community

UPA Muslim-face Rejected by A.M.U.

Mr. Salman Khurshid, the only Muslim Cabinet Minister, many Muslims so believe. They also believe that his promotion to the Cabinet rank owes to this. He is planted to mingle, appease and serve Muslim interests, if possible or at least keep them expecting, confused and guessing, somehow, in order to keep them in good humour, if not won over.

The reckoning of Mr. Salman amongst Muslims has always been low and the incident of 17th Oct, 2011 has further damaged it because the opposition of the Congress has surfaced with full fury.

Neither AMU nor UPA visualized this. However, the fault lies with Mr. Salman and the Party Bosses who failed to realize the gravity of the situation. Actually, the anger and resentment reached its nadir long ago with the coming up of the so-called AMU Centres in 2009 and simultaneous patronization of the ill-intentioned VC for the purpose, who took the liberty to plunder at will with impunity.

Mr. Salman was hurt and disappointed because he could not pay visit to the place of birth and the place close to his heart, where the glorious son of AMU, Zakir Sahab his grandfather, was the VC. His hurt is misplaced because in recent past he was the guest of this very AMUTA twice and he is welcome to Aligarh any time even now but not the way he planned to provide legitimacy and encouragement to the worst-ever VC, most probably at the behest of Party Bosses. Not only this, Mr. Salman was approached repeatedly by teachers, and well-wishers of Aligarh for help and he cannot plead ignorance of the harm done to AMU in the last four years of Azis, destroying its discipline, traditions and values, academic standards, threatening its very existence, to say the least.

The Govt. is giving the impression loud and clear that it has no power to remove the VC. Would Mr. Salman a jurist of substance, endorse this stand that there is one more person in this great democratic country after the President of India, who is above the law and he is the present AMU VC!!!

What is the purpose of inquiry after inquiry without any result? Is the government buying time so that Mr. Azis may complete his term?

All actions of the Govt. remain suspect unless immediate action is taken to remove Azis from office.

Ziauddin Ahmad and others

Prof Ziauddin Ahmad was formerly Professor in the Dept of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He can be raeched at

Law and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid failed to enter the AMU Campus

AMU Salman Khurshid failed to enter the AMU Campus: A blunder led to confrontation with Congress, head on !

Facts speak for themselves: readers make their own assessments & respond:

Shri Salman was the Chief Guest for the Sir Syed Day on 17th (many other having declined). Friends, Aligs and AMUTA, asked, advised even warned him, not to go Aligarh as long as the accused Azis is there, for reasons so well known. He was, therefore, initially reluctant, but then agreed because he nurses a deep desire to impress his Party Bosses that he has a place amongst the Muslims (you know better, his performance) and tows the dubious Congress policy of supporting the corrupt VC, for the sake of illegal AMU Centres to befool Muslims. The occasion, was favorable and convenient and he was lured to take the plunge. In his enthusiasm coupled surely with intoxication, he refused to appreciate the proposed black flag protest by AMUTA, and the respect he should hold for teachers at his place of birth, (he was the guest of honour for the same function organized by the AMUTA). However, AMUTA on its part warned in advance, the Congress leadership of its resentment and proposed protest. The new banners put up on the road by AMUTA explained it all;

Unreliable Salman Khurshid is not welcome.

Illegal off-campus Centres, Congress Conspiracy to Finish AMU.

Law Minister in AMU makes CBI probe suspect.

Dubious Congress shielding corrupt VC.

Visitors Restrain Order flouted by VC.

AMUTA had no intentions to block his entry and they made it known to the Dist. Administration. It was a different matter that the agitating students opposite the VC lodge were hugely encouraged by the presence of their teachers picketing next to them at the Staff Club and were found determined to turn Shri Salman out. Round 7 pm the road from Babe-e-Syed to the VC lodge, when Shri. Salman was expected to enter the Campus, was swarmed by students in thousands. Certainly, an ugly situation was saved by the timely intervention of the Dist. Adm.
Shri Salman reached the outskirts and waited for an hour and had discussion with the Dist. Administration which expressed its inability to ensure his trouble free entry in the Campus forcing him to quietly slip to the house of his pet Shri Bansal, local congress MLC and even refused the dinner in his honour at the Women’s College, a safe place.

Events will take such a turn, nobody had actually expected which is a fair indication of the anger brewing on the Campus against the Congress.

However, University official function was held as a formality with thin attendance of the hand picked audience and non-stop shouting and chanting by students. In the rest of the University the celebration went on with the usual fervour including the Staff Club, the teachers bastion.
One the Side lines Shri. Salman (to the question by the press) asserted that the Govt. has no role in the establishment of the illegal AMU Centres and this is all University’s own doing. This is totally incorrect and misleading and unconvincing. Such a degree of insensitivity of a Minister promoted to the rank of the Cabinet Minister and given portfolios to win and appease Muslims, shall leave him nowhere and lead to further alienation of Muslims, a very high price, the Congress can hardly afford to pay.

The whole world knows that the blessed misconceived AMU Centres were high on Govt agenda and their task made easy by collaborator Prof. Azis, who is a manipulator and has no scrupulous with full Govt. encouragement, protection and support in every way possible provided to him for the purpose. It can also not be denied that the VC in barter earned the freedom to plunder at will which the Govt. failed to contain and therefore inquiry after inquiry brought no results, created a scam of scams and the on going CBI, CVC and CAG probes have become suspects. Shri Salman who swears by AMU has done nothing to contain the VC, restrain his Govt. and protect AMU from the repercussions of the illegal AMU Centres which may ultimately finish AMU.

The present episode in Aligarh was a blunder on the part of UPA and Shri Salman, and fortunately or unfortunately they have taste of AMU and its resentment, the tide has turned against them and the line is finally drawn.

It is upto UPA to mend fences with AMU and surely the Muslims of India, by removing the VC immediately. No excuses. Let us be friends again if irritant is removed.
Aligarh se khilwadh bahut mehngah padega! Baqi aap ki marzi!

Hashmat Ali Khan
Advocate, Aligarh

Posted on on Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:58 PM

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Bihar (Kishanganj) AMU Centre Scam: FIR Lodged Against Cong MP, Five MLAs

AMU - FIR Lodged Against Cong MP, Five MLAs:

What were the pressing circumstances before Maulana Asrarul Haq Quasmi (M.P) and others to come out on road and resort to violence and disrupt law and order, thereby inviting criminal proceedings by the District Administration?

What prompted them is the disclosure made by the scheming and manipulator VC, Prof. Azis, made at Kishanganj on 6 Sept 2011 despite the Visitors gag order;

“According to AMU VC, he is going to retire in January 2012, so all the official formalities to open the ‘Centre’ at Kishanganj should be finished before he leaves the University. In fact, he has some concern and said it can’t be expected that the next VC would take ahead the idea of opening the ‘Study Centres of AMU’ out of Aligarh”

While all other reasons put forward to justifying their misadventure were misleading and not convincing because;
The AMU Act does not provide for creation of ‘Centres’. Moreover, the AMU being a Residential and Muslim Minority Institution [Section 5(9A) & Preamble]; no facility for teaching beyond 25 Km can be created.
The AMU cannot extend concessions to Muslims, so is true for the AMU Centres under total AMU control, as the Minority status of AMU has been quashed by High Court in 2005.
It is practically impossible to effectively manage affairs of AMU Centres, situated thousands of Kms away, on day to day basis from Aligarh.
Establishment of AMU Centres/Campuses is in the UPA Govt agenda since long. In the recent past it was during the tenure of Mr. Naseem Ahmad, 2004-2005, who refused to oblige the MHRD as the AMU Act does not provide for Centres/Campuses especially beyond 25 Kms away from the Univ Mosque.
Prof. Azis broke all records of manipulation and violations of rules in the process of establishing the Centres at Murshidabad (Pranab’s constituency) and Malappuram (VC town) and incurred expenses in crores of Rupees illegally and unauthorized.
On the top of it all, the amendments to the Statutes proposed through manipulations and illegalities, have neither been approved by the competent two Houses of Parliament nor Gazetted as required under Section 31 (4) and (5) of the AMU Act. Thus the two Centres do not legally exist. This is an illegality, which has no parallel. As a result this caused two PILS to be filed, pending before High Court.
The UPA Govt through the MHRD, Finance Ministry and UGC provided all strategic support and encouragement to the unscrupulous and corrupt VC including whole lot of manipulations and illegalities (violations of rules) committed in the process.
The Govt has neither made any grant for Kishanganj nor is there permission of the Visitor available for that.

The Finance Minister has gone to the extent of misleading the Parliament when the allocation of Rs 50 crore was made for Murshidabad and Malappuram in the Union Budget 2009-2010 on the plea that the AMU has decided to establish two new AMU Campuses, which was totally incorrect. In another manipulation only Rs.10 crore were released to Mallappuram out of 25 crores allocated.

The quantum of illegalities committed are unprecedented, brazen and assume the size of a full fledged scam with the blessings of the Govt, which swears for clean public service devoid of corruption.

It is more than evident that the Congress MP has been promoting the party’s and his own interests without any regard to the harm that could be caused to AMU and inspirations of Muslims of India.

Maulana Quasmi and his supporters just cannot plead ignorance and deserve to be condemned and rejected for misleading Muslims and AMU.

Er. Shabbir Ahmad
Er. Saeedur Rehman Siddiqi
Er. Z.A. Qidwai
Prof. Q. Zainus Sajidin
Prof. Nafees Ahmad
Prof. Ziauddin Ahmad

AMU VC Azis Decries Orders of the Honble President of India, Visitor of AMU!

AMU Affairs: Ref: AMU’s VC Decries Presidential Order, CBI Team in Campus by Faisal Fareed (daijiworld.com dated 18.9.11): Besieged VC loses Balance.

Evidently, the presence of CBI team on the Campus and ‘quizzing of the VC twice’, has its telling effect on the behavior of the besieged VC, which has un-nerved him to resort to the most un-becoming and objectionable outbursts against AMUTA (holds were never otherwise barred for him) as reported and quoted below;

“AMUTA representatives and their collaborators are collaborating with the anti-education, anti-Muslims anti-AMU forces working in the government and outside”. The Govt. is supposed to take immediate notice on this provocation and unjustified comment of the VC and restrain the VC decisively. At the same time AMUTA should warn the VC to behave!

“the restriction is totally illegal, AMUTA leaders are apparently behaving like puppets of certain politicians and the MHRD. The stand taken by them is violative of the AMU Act”.

“blatant lies were constantly fed by AMUTA, Executive without the required mandate of AMU larger teaching community”.

VC failed to elaborate on the illegality of the Visitor’s order nor did he register his protest with the Visitor against illegalities (except the clarification sought on routine matters and making payments for the on-going projects which was allowed. Request for making temporary appointments is under consideration). He has also failed to knock the doors of the Court for justice?? The chivalrous way, the VC operates, has thrown the rules to winds, he ought to ignore the illegal Visitor’s order. The VC, who has unique distinction of holding the meetings of EC without quorum and took very vital decisions, should not be deterred by ‘illegal directives’ and resort to functioning as before. What is the hesitation now? Azis sb has been the law unto himself !

So far as the functioning of AMUTA is concerned: The AMUTA Executive and Action Committee had the mandate of the G.B. VC tried his best to make a dent through the beneficiaries, teachers in the Administration and those waiting for favours, has failed tamely and the attempt to engineer a mini revolt against AMUTA fell flat. If the VC is so sure of dissent amongst teachers, why does he not direct them to requisition a G.B. meeting to thrash the matter out (an attempt, already made, in this direction has failed). Further more, if the AMUTA is feeding blatant lies, why can’t the VC and his propaganda machinery, the Media Committee, who are constantly on the watch and move, failed to effectively counter the AMUTA and expose them? Actually, the facts are contrary, the VC has nothing to say in self-defense except telling lies, twisting facts, presenting half truths, for which there are no takers now, as the public is fed up with his false propaganda. The ship is sinking and the writing on the walls.

AMU Centres: VC continues to defy the Visitor’s ‘restrain’ order by involving himself in the exercise to establish AMU Centres at Malappuram, Kishangang as reported ‘two circle’.net and by us (18.9.11) and now Malegaon Centre (refer: ummid.com by staff reported (18.9.11) and the VC has agreed and promised to send a team for the inspection of the land etc.

In the process the VC has dealt with: the short-comings at Malappuram and the financial and other support of the Kerala State Govt and Shri E. Ahmad, who has no Locus standi; VC has given word for the establishment of a Centre at Kishangang from the scratch and sounded the Bihari enthusiasts to hurry up or they would be doomed as the next VC may not oblige them (VC does not make policies but he had manipulated and coerced); and the negotiations for the Malegoan Centre have started that too by by-passing the University Authorities AC, EC and the Court (as the powers do not lie with the VC) and at the same time defying the Visitor’s restrain order as the policy matters of far reaching consequences are abundantly involved.

Thus openly defying the directions contained in the Visitor’s ‘restrain’ order of not indulging in appointments and decisions which may have long time financial and administrative and academic implications.

Therefore, there is a fool-proof case against the un-stoppable and erring VC, Abdul Azis for drastic action by placing him under suspension immediately to put an end to the nonsense.

In addition to this, the indulgence of the VC in opposing and meddling with the CBI probe in various ways should also be considered seriously.
Failure of the Govt. if any, to proceed even now decisively against Azis on the merit of the case, shall send a wrong signal and disappoint rather annoy the Community, which would have far-reaching consequences.

UPA by causing delays and its repeated failure to rise to the occasion advertently or otherwise, has already alienated Muslims at large.

Prof. Ziauddin Ahmad (Retd.)
Dept of Botany
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh