Why a Communal Muslim University in a Hindu area in West Bengal?

Bengali Hindus retaliate over Construction of Aligarh Muslim University in Hindu area. 

Baharampur (WB) | 1st Sept, 2012 | HE Media Desk – MSD :: Ongoing  construction of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Campus at Ahiran under Suti -I Development Block in Murshidabad in West Bengal was vehemently protested by the Hindu peasants and aggrieved locals under the leadership of BJP West Bengal Unit.

BJP supporters on Friday (31-08-2012) injured five policemen by platings stones and exploded bombs, torched two government vehicles and ransacked the office of the BDO at Suti- I demanding renaming of the upcoming campus of the Aligarh Muslim University in Murshidabad district as reports came in. The trouble started when a BJP delegation led by its state unit President Rahul Sinha and Subir Das, Jt. Block Development Officer (BDO), Suti – I,  exchanged heated arguments over the demands of renaming the proposed university and immediate stoppage of its construction work which began in the first week of August, SP Humayun Kabir said.

It is alleged that the land encroachments from the poor Hindu farmers was made in  such a discriminatory way in which the Hindu land looser got  minimum compensation. Though it is told by the administrative authorities that  40 bighas of encroached land so far been returned to the annoyed Hindu farmers, the question of establishing a campus of  Aligarh Muslim University (the pioneer institution of  two nation theory to make a division of this country into Bharat and Pakistan) in a Hindu majority block (Suti-I) is still unsolved.

While the construction of the said Communal University (AMU has cent percent Muslim employees and faculties) is running in the abandoned quarters and complex of  Farakka Barrage Authority, the locals demand an university in the name of Patriotic and revolutionary Poet Nazru Islam or in the name of Murshidabad University as a local sentiment.

It must be mentioned here that as per the constitution of  AMU, it  only permits its extension units within the 25 kilometers radius of  AMU Mosque. A special leave petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court is now pending in the matter of establishment of Kishanganj Campus of AMU in Bihar.

The SLP has been filed by one Jainarayan Kumar who has challenged the move to open the AMU centre in Kishanganj, citing the Aligarh Muslim University Act’s Section 5 which allows opening of such centres only within 25km of the university mosque. Earlier, the Patna high court threw out such a plea on the basis of Section 12 of the Act which provided for the establishment and maintenance of such centres with the sanction of the AMU’s Visitor, who is the President of the country.

In such a situation, a hectic arrangements for the impugned construction is being made by the West Bengal State authorities in the face of the Muslim appeasement policy adopted by Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

At latest, a FIR has been made by the state police against 1000 agitators (mostly Hindus) including Rahul Sinha, the President of West Bengal BJP unit. Sri Sinha reiterated that he had put no incitement in this matter so far.

The repercussion of the local people is very natural as they do not tolerate any Muslim cultural invasion in the name of a Muslim University in  an area still dominated by Hindu culture so far.

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