Right wing ‘maligning’ AMU: Alumni

Shahira Naim
Tribune News Service
Lucknow, February 16

Aligarh Muslim University alumni associations have written to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding an inquiry into a news channel attempting to “malign” the honour of their alma mater and causing “communal disharmony”.

The AMU alumni associations of Saudi Arabia and the UAE have written to the President regarding the February 12 incident when crew of a news channel was shooting on the campus without permission. “When the university authorities tried to stop them the crew not only defied their order but turned abusive and lodged a case against the university. They also labelled AMU as the university of terrorists,” they said.

The video of the incident has gone viral on the social media. The alumni associations asked the President to intervene and ensure action against those slandering AMU. “The recent chain of events on the campus has disturbed us enough to hold an emergency meeting to decide on the plan of action to protect our alma mater,” a representative of the  association said.

The shooting incident was followed by a relative of a BJP MLA firing at students and subsequently 14 AMU students being charged with sedition. The former students of the university have decided to start an international campaign to expose what they call “the right wing’s attempt to malign the university”.

AMU has alumni associations in Malaysia, Australia, England, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Canada and the US.