AMU V-C asks protesting students to focus on development

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The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) administration has termed the ongoing agitation for restoration of students’ union on campus a threat to the healthy functioning of the university.

According to AMU Vice-Chancellor Prof P K Abdul Azis, the ongoing agitation is an attempt to takeover the functioning of the university by force. The university cannot sustain academic excellence in absence of discipline, he said.

On Saturday, V-C appealed the students and the academic staff to allow the university function normally and asked them to cooperate and focus on development initiatives.

More than 150 agitating students have been holding a dharna in front of the V-C’s house since October 4. They blocked the entrance to V-C’s residence in the early hours of Friday. The V-C was moved from his official residence on the campus to a government guesthouse at midnight. However, the students are still on dharna outside V-C’s residence.