‘Not against Muslims’ – protesting students at BHU explain their position. An OpIndia exclusive
5 years, 1 month ago

‘Not against Muslims’ – protesting students at BHU explain their position. An OpIndia exclusive

Op India  

‘Pandit Krishnakant Chaturvedi will soon teach Islam, Shariat and Islamic studies…’ What happened? Recently, in Banaras Hindu University ’s Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan stream, a Muslim professor Dr Firoz Khan was appointed as an assistant professor. One Shashikant Mishra, a student in SVDV stream in BHU told OpIndia that their protest is against appointment of a non-Hindu in ‘Dharma Vigyan’ stream. Our second issue is when the BHU rule itself says that a non-Hindu can neither study nor teach in SVDV stream, why is a Muslim appointed as assistant professor?” He even added that “Hindu institutes” did not prohibit entry of ‘Non-Hindus’ through any constitution. Read: BHU’s MA paper asks students to discuss about Islam’s social evils like Triple Talaq and Halala “For almost 20 years, their ‘gang’ has a monopoly over all university level appointments.

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