BJP MLA’s grandson gets notice for organising Tiranga Yatra

AGRA

: Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Wednesday issued a show cause notice to a LLM student Ajay Singh, who is the grandson of BJP MLA Dalveer Singh, for organising a “Tiranga Yatra” on the campus without taking permission from authorities.

Confirming the move, proctor of the university, Prof Mohsin Khan, said that a bike rally was organised by the students on Tuesday without taking permission during teaching hours. He told TOI, “The varsity authorities have taken cognizance of the matter as it disturbed the academic atmosphere on a working day. Ajay violated the students’ conduct and disciplinary rules of AMU so the varsity has sought his reply within 24 hours, failing to do which strict action would be taken against the student.” The notice reads, “It is alleged that on your pursuance some outsiders and anti-social elements were also part of this gathering and rally. This had created fear among the students by destroying peaceful academic atmosphere of the university campus and had given bad name to the university.”

Meanwhile, Ajay said that he had sought permission from the proctor office on January 19 and they had received the application, but did not respond. Ajay said, “The proctor office has no objections when students protest and raise slogans in the campus against the killing of a terrorist in J&K, or burn papers after implementation of 10% reservation for economically backward among the upper castes. But they have a problem when we take out a Tiranga rally with slogans of ‘

Bharat Mata

ki jai’.”

He added that he will file a complaint with the human resource and development (HRD) ministry against the university’s biased behaviour. “The university authorities have themselves divided the campus. We did nothing wrong in taking out a Tiranga rally ahead of Republic Day,” Ajay said.