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| Suspension orders of Kashmiri students revoked | | BJP loses its face | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 17: Politically and communally- motivated Pressure exerted by separatists and semi-separatist outfits, in Kashmir, including the PDP and the NC, on the BJP-led Government of India has produced the results and the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Tuesday night revoked the suspension order after a three-member enquiry panel set up by the varsity exonerated Waseem Ayyub Malik and Abdul Haseeb Mir, saying "no credible evidence" of their participation in any "unlawful assembly" in the varsity campus was found.
They were suspended on Friday for allegedly participating in an aborted Namaaz-e-Janaza (prayer meeting) in the university campus for a slain Hizbul Mujahideen militant, Manan Bashir Wani. Malik and Meer, besides one unknown person, were also booked by police on sedition charges for allegedly raising "anti-India" slogans.
The episode had become a big issue across the country with friend and well-wishers of India condemning the pro-separatist and anti-India activity and demanding a stringent action against the culprit, saying that it was a must to produce a moral effect so that no one in the future dared to indulge in any kind of anti-national activity on the university campus or elsewhere.
Shockingly, all Kashmiri leaders had swung solidly behind the Kashmiri students and virtually threatened the Government of India that any action against the Kashmiri students would be counter-productive and worsen the Kashmir situation. Mehbooba Mufti had even threatened to go to Aligarh to express solidarity with the Kashmiri students, 1200 in number, who had threatened to leave university and return to Kashmir if "suspension orders were not revoked and cases of sedition against Kashmiri students not withdrawn".
It was an occasion for the authorities in the state and at the Centre to remain firm and allow the law to take its own course but it was not to be. Some "influential" persons in the state administration and Union Government intervened and the result was the revocation of suspension order and withdrawal of sedition charges.
The decision of the authorities to withdraw the suspension orders and withdrawal of sedition charges would surely embolden the undesirables and help them vitiate the atmosphere on the campuses and other vital places. No wonder that the critics have described the decision as a "victory of separatists and defeat of the nation". Indeed, the BJP on Tuesday again lost its phase. Earlier, the BJP had patted its back saying that "no person involved in the anti-national activity in AMU would be spared and the law will take its own course. |
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