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Deoband
chief offers to quit over Modi remarks row
Wednesday January 26, 2011 09:06:25 AM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Caught in
controversy over his alleged praise for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Deoband Islamic seminary's vice chancellor Maulana
Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi Tuesday offered to step down from the
position he had been appointed to barely a few weeks back.
According to a Darul Uloom source, Maulana Vastanvi has tendered
his resignation, which would be placed before the institution's
governing council 'Majlis-e-Shoora' Feb 15, adding that the final
decision would be taken then.
The move followed daylong demonstrations and chaos all over Darul
Uloom campus, where groups of students and the faculty entered
into a free-for-all. While a large chunk of students were
unrelenting on their demand for the ouster of the vice chancellor,
whom they were unwilling to pardon for praising Modi, another
group stood up in support of Vastanvi.
Claiming that the vice chancellor's remarks about the Gujarat
chief minister had been "distorted and twisted" by the media,
members of the pro-Vastanvi alleged the tirade against the vice
chancellor was motivated by certain vested interests.
The anti-Vastanvi group staged a sit-in demonstration raising
slogans of "Modi-Nawaz VC waapas jao" (Modi admiring VC go back).
They have resolved to continue their agitation until the vice
chancellor leaves the campus.
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