KEM for establishment of an extended unit of AMU in Kishanganj

Updated on: Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Kishanganj Education Movement (KEM) for establishment of an extended unit of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Kishanganj, has, for the time being deferred its stir plan against the Congress-led UPA government for its alleged dilly-dallying over allocation of funds for the same.

KEM secretary Mohammad Masood Raza said the phase-wise stir plan was put on hold following PM Manmohan Singh's categorical assurance that he would take it up with HRD minister Kapil Sibal and ensure that funds are allocated immediately.

A delegation headed by Congress MP Asrarul Haq recently called upon the PM and urged him to allocate funds for the AMU's unit at Kishanganj since the state government has already allocated 224.02 acres of land at Chakla near Kishanganj. Those in the delegation included NCP MP Tariq Anwar, Congress MLA Dr Javed, RJD MLA Akhtar-ul-Iman and MLA Ali Ram Victor from West Bengal.

The KEM, it may be recalled, had launched a massive agitation on October 12, 2011 against the state government for its delay on allocation of land for AMU. The state government finally handed over the 224.02 acre plot of land to AMU on December 30, 2011. Ever since then political leaders are crying hoarse for the release of funds, which the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and the Central government had promised as soon as the state government allocated the land.

But, until the legal road block is taken care of and the Supreme Court of India disposes of the case pending before it challenging the establishment of AMU's unit in Kishanganj, it will continue to be a pipedream, said informed sources. It may be mentioned here that the President of India, who also happens to be the visitor of AMU, had sought the opinion of Union law and justice ministry whether the President can go ahead in granting permission for the establishment of AMU's unit. The law and justice ministry, accordingly, said, "It will be advisable to await the outcome of SLP pending before the court since it was sub-judice." One Jai Narayan Kumar has filed a writ petition in the apex court challenging the establishment of AMU's unit in Kishanganj.

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