Aligarh Muslim University also victim of BJP’s sectarian politics
New Delhi: Aligarh Muslim University of India has also fallen prey to the BJP’s extremist and sectarian politics.
The Kashmir Media Service reported that Muslim universities in India are also under the influence of BJP-led Modi’s poisonous propaganda. The last 10 years of Modi’s rule have encompassed politics of sectarianism and hatred, which has also engulfed the universities.
The century-old Aligarh Muslim University has been a victim of BJP’s sectarian politics for the past one decade, with several Muslim-majority universities under Modi’s rule suffering violence and attacks.
Despite criticism over Modi’s anti-Muslim communal speech last week, he repeated his anti-Muslim rhetoric while campaigning for Aligarh MP Satish Gautam on Monday.
A PhD scholar says, “In recent years, the conflicts in Aligarh Muslim University have been politicized, while the BJP’s political narrative is focused on extremism rather than employment.”
Students say that education has been exploited by the BJP to an extent no other party has done. Applications for limited vacancies are increasing, but there are no jobs. The posts of primary teachers have not been advertised for last five years. Educated youth are not getting employment, and while the posts that do come up, the BJP appoints its own people to them.
“On the one hand, the youth are not given employment, while on the other hand; communal thinking is encouraged by the BJP.”
After the incidents of paper leaks for government posts in Uttar Pradesh, seats are given to favored people, but the government is not taking notice.
Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP strongly objected to hanging a picture of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on the walls of the student union office. In November 2018, BJP workers alleged that Aligarh University was run on Taliban ideology.
The BJP also expressed serious reservations about performing the funeral prayer of a Muslim student. Other BJP leaders also termed the university a hub of terrorists following students organizing a march in support of Palestine.
In 2019, students protesting against the Citizenship Bill were lathi-charged and tortured after a police crackdown. Students have been booked for protesting the Citizenship Bill and jailed for speaking at the university. A mere protest by university students on the swearing-in of the Modi government for the second term was heavily criticized by the BJP workers.
Any protest by students in Aligarh Muslim University is made political and the students are called terrorists, but when the students of Banaras Hindu University protest, there is no such criticism. This is a question on being a minority, and a narrative is being created across the country.
