By TCN News,
New Delhi: Aligarh Muslim University Coordination Committee (AMUCC), a nonpolitical group in the forefront of the AMU Kishanganj movement, is going to organize a protest demonstration against the cold attitude of the Congress-led UPA Government towards the proposed Kishanganj centre of Aligarh Muslim University.
The Bihar government handed over required 224 acres land to AMU administration on 30th December 2011 but the central government has not moved an inch towards next step for the Kishanganj centre. The AMU vice chancellor office had written a letter to Union Ministry of Human Resource Development on 4th January 2012 for providing the approval of Visitor and allocation of Rs. 50 crore for Kishanganj centre in the 11th plan, but AMUCC says the ministry is just sitting on the file even two and half months have since passed.
“The UPA Government’s leaders including MHRD was blaming the Nitish Kumar led NDA Government of Bihar on repeated intervals for not providing the required 250 acres land. However, after officially transferring 224.02 acres land to AMU Registrar in presence of Vice Chancellor and other officials, the Bihar Government has fulfilled the prerequisite to have a special centre in the deprived area of Kishanganj. Land was available with AMU in Bihar and now it was requiring approval of Visitor (President of India) through the Ministry of HRD. On January 04, 2012, the former Vice Chancellor Prof P K Abdul Azis had written a letter to MHRD for providing the approval of Visitor and allocation of Rs. 50 crore for Kishanganj in 11th plan. Aligarh Muslim University Coordination Committee (AMUCC), a nonpolitical group working as a facilitator for the proposed centre at Kishanganj has come across surprising facts while approached to MHRD. Since the agreement signing on December 30 about two and half months have passed, but the MHRD has not given any attention to the file related with AMU,” said Mohammad Mudassir Alam, PRO, AMUCC.
Mudassir alleged the MHRD officials tried to mislead the AMUCC delegation and then offered lame excuses. “Even the top officials of MHRD tried to misguide the delegates of AMUCC by sighting false reasons of delay like the pending writ petition at Allahabad Court, Implementation of Code of Conduct due to state elections, etc,” he said.
He said AMUCC is unhappy with the unfair approach of the Central Government towards the proposed Special Centre of AMU in Kishanganj. Led by Convener Mohammad Aslam, AMUCC has decided to organize a democratic protest against the UPA Government on 19th March, 2012 at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi between 12 pm and 3 pm. AMUCC will submit memorandum to Ministry of HRD and Ministry of Finance with the demands of immediate action on the pending file of AMU Kishanganj and release of initial Rs. 50 crore fund for the Kishanganj centre.
Mudassir said AMUCC has already taken permission from the Police to protest at Jantar Mantar and many political leaders including social activists, non-government organizations and educationists have confirmed their participation. The core team members Mahfooz Alam, Kaifee Anwer, Matin Iqbal, Abrar Rahi, Khalid Mubashshir, Soban M Ahmad, Sarwar Alam, Tauqueer Alam, Mansoor Alam, Murteza Iqbal, Lalitendra Bharatiya, Subham Jalan, Sachin Kumar, Danish Anwer, Wasim Akhtar, Zamir Iqbal, and dozens of others were highly disappointed over the step attitude of UPA government towards the proposed campus of AMU at Kishanganj. They unanimously said that the Centre Government doesn’t have any interest towards the issues related to Muslims.
If the government doesn’t fulfill the demands on time, we will keep on doing protests at the national capital including the hunger strike, he said.