Modi will attend the online function along with Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, it said.
Still admitted at the trauma centre, undergraduate Mohammad Tazeen, 19, alleged that he and several others faced a merciless attack" by police. He said he was dragged out of the AMU guest house number 3, thrashed there and again at the Malkhan Singh Hospital, "where nearly 20 of us were taken in police vans supposedly for treatment".
Aligarh Muslim University on Wednesday suspended a professor who referred to examples of "rape" in Hindu mythology during a forensic science class, provoking accusations of hurting religious sentiments.
According to RDA president Hamza Malik, the availability of protective gear for doctors at the hospital had reached a critical point when they had threatened to boycott work if necessary gear was not made available immediately. The crisis was however defused on the intervention of the AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor, who assured them that their concerns were being immediately addressed.
Professor Mustafa should take some inspiration from the prime minister and start advocating for a Pasmanda or a woman, preferably from outside UP/Hyderabad, to be appointed vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University this time. That should be a fitting tribute to the vision of the prime minister.
Is it a divine, sacrosanct university, a holy cow, prohibiting human intervention?
Professor Murthy, who was also the chairman of the Department of Modern English Language at the varsity, had been teaching at the Aligarh Muslim University for the last 28 years.
The last time a prime minister attended an event at AMU was Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1964. Before him, then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru had visited the AMU four times.
The AMU defended the portrait, saying that Jinnah was a founder of the university and granted life membership of the student union.
The meeting is seen as part of efforts by the RSS and the BJP to reach out to the Muslim community and send out a message of peace and harmony.
It was suspected that the scholar from Tikipora in Lolab area might have joined the Hizbul Mujahideen.
Over 260 policemen were also injured, of whom 57 received gunshot wounds, IG (Law and Order) Praveen Kumar said on Saturday.
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