Owaisi said the cardinal authorities “should instrumentality this judgement successful its stride and should enactment AMU arsenic it is besides a cardinal university”.
Soon aft the Supreme Court connected Friday overturned its 1967 verdict that Aligarh Muslim University is not a number institution, the AIMIM and the Samajwadi Party welcomed the ruling, with the Asaduddin Owaisi-led enactment saying the Narendra Modi authorities “should instrumentality this judgement successful its stride and enactment AMU arsenic it is besides a cardinal university”.
“It is an important time for Muslims of India. The 1967 judgement had rejected number presumption of AMU erstwhile successful information it was [a number institution]. Article 30 states that minorities person the close to found and administer their acquisition institutions successful a mode that they deem fit,” the president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen wrote connected X.
Owaisi wrote that with the verdict of the seven-judge Constitution bench, “the close of minorities to amended themselves has been upheld”. “I congratulate each students and module of AMU today. It does not substance if the University was established earlier the Constitution, oregon if it was acceptable up by a instrumentality of the government. It is simply a number instauration if it was established by minorities. All the arguments of the BJP were rejected,” helium added.
On the BJP, the Hyderabad MP wrote, “The BJP has opposed number presumption for AMU for each these years. What is it going to bash now? It has made each effort to onslaught AMU and Jamia, and our close to adjacent tally madrasas. BJP indispensable introspect and spell for a people correction.”
Owaisi further said the cardinal authorities “should instrumentality this judgement successful its stride and should enactment AMU arsenic it is besides a cardinal university”.
“Jamia gets Rs 3 lakh per student, AMU gets Rs 3.9 lakh per student, but BHU gets Rs 6.15 lakh. Jamia and AMU person consistently performed good successful nationalist rankings. With the close enactment the Universities could beryllium globally renowned. But for that, Modi indispensable halt discriminating against them. AMU’s Kishanganj centre has been languishing for the past galore years. This indispensable besides beryllium addressed urgently and the centre should statesman moving arsenic soon arsenic possible,” helium added.
Samajwadi Party nationalist spokesperson Abdul Hafeez Gandhi said his enactment welcomed the apex tribunal verdict. “This verdict volition pave the mode for AMU to get number presumption successful the future. Today’s bid by the tribunal has laid down definite tests to find the number quality of an institute. I consciousness AMU volition fulfil each tests and hopefully, the aboriginal regular Bench volition determine successful AMU’s favour,” helium said.