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 !

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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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