Ex-students urge Jamia VC to withdraw invitation sent to PM Modi

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By IndiaTomorrow.net,

New Delhi, 27 Nov 2015: Around one hundred former students for Jamia Millia Islamia have written to Vice Chancellor of the university urging him to withdraw the invitation sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the upcoming annual convocation of the centrally-funded university.

“We, the ex-students of Jamia Millia Islamia, are writing to you to express our deep anguish and grief on your invitation to Mr. Narendra Modi to be the chief guest at annual convocation. We are anguished and shocked because, he is along with his party members, have been constantly involved in spreading rumors and hatred about Jamia Millia Islamia,” they said in the letter to VC Prof. Talat Ahmad.

In the letter, they have cited a 2008 election campaign remark of Modi as chief minister of Gujarat against the decision of then Jamia VC to provide legal aid to the students made accused in the 2008 Batla House encounter case. In his remarks, captured on video, Modi had questioned the decision of VC saying how public money can be spent to protect ‘terrorists’.

The former students have said Jamia university never used money for that purpose and it was just false propaganda that tarnished the image of the university.

At the end of the letter, signed by 98 former students, the Jamia VC was urged: “We have a very simple request to you, withdraw the invitation because given Mr. Modi’s track record, he does not deserve to address annual convocation. Or at least ask him to render a public apology about his own malicious and incorrect statement before he attends the convocation.”

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