Former Vice President of India, Hamid Ansari has raised questions on the “disruption, its precise timing and the excuse manufactured for justifying it” by some intruders at Aligarh Muslim University on May 2.
He supported the students in their peaceful protests as well as their “request that action be taken against the intruders and disruptors, after a judicial enquiry”.
Ansari was inside the AMU campus on May 2 to deliver a lecture and would be honoured with life membership of the Aligarh Muslim University Students’ Union. Other life members of AMUSU include Mahatma Gandhi, B.R Ambedkar, C.V. Raman, Jawaharlal Nehru among others.
But just hours before the programme, some Hindu Yuva Vahini and RSS activists came to the gate, started shouting slogans, and allegedly beat up some AMU students. Later, the students gathered around the gate to go to the police station but police stopped them and beat them up and the right wing activists allegedly joined them. The distance between the gate and the guest house where Ansari was staying, was barely 50 metres. Eventually, the programme had to be cancelled.
Ansari wrote the letter to AMUSU President, Maskoor Ahmed Usmani.
Read the entire letter here:
