An area of trainees had actually objected to the Iftar party at the BHU’s s “Mahila Mahavidyalaya” and also in demonstration versus the Vice Chancellor’s presence there, recited the “Hanuman Chalisa” outside his residence.

Banaras Hindu University– among the premier educational institutions in the country– was hit by controversy over Iftar today.
A section of pupils had objected to the Iftar event at the University’s “Mahila Mahavidyalaya” as well as in protest against the Vice Chancellor’s existence there on Wednesday evening, recited the “Hanuman Chalisa” outside his house.

Implicating the vice-Chancellor of “appeasement national politics”, the students also shed his effigy at the area.

” Iftar party was officially arranged in college for the very first time. All costs were birthed by University. We’ll not permit organising iftar celebrations formally” one of the trainees stated.

The college hit back, condemning the “effort to interrupt the tranquility as well as academic atmosphere” and also proclaimed that the damaging fast at sundown during Ramzan with an Iftaar celebration is a valued custom there.

Chandra Shekhar Grewal, the Public Relations Policeman at the University tweeted, “There should not be any complication or false information concerning 2 things: 1. #Iftar had not been arranged by Vice-Chancellor Prof. Sudhir K Jain. Students & educators invited him & he participated in as head of #BHU fraternity.2. Practice of organizing iftar in BHU go back to over 2 years.”


The blog post was gone along with by a statement from the University, which spoke of its “all-encompassing atmosphere”, where “one finds no scope of any type of form of discrimination on any kind of basis”.

Vice-Chancellor Teacher Sudhir K Jain had participated in the Iftar “on invite by the pupils”, the University claimed.

“The custom of arranging Iftar in BHU go back to more than twenty years. These Iftars were gone to by succeeding Vice-Chancellors throughout the years in the capability of the head of the BHU society … Iftar can not be arranged for the previous two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” the statement read.

The College’s chief proctor, Bhuvan Chanda Kapri, stated such Iftar events were the norm at the college.

“No official events are done … This is not the very first time any type of college authorities has signed up with the Iftar party. The Prime Minister and also primary priest have actually additionally signed up with the celebration before,” Mr Kapri was quoted as saying by news company ANI.

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Last Updated: 28 April 2022