AMU Vice Chancellor, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis on September 16 said a highly motivated group of detractors was using the platform of AMU Teachers’ Association (AMUTA) for unleashing malicious campaign that ultimately denigrate both the venerable office of the Vice Chancellor and the Aligarh Muslim University. The recent memorandum submitted by AMUTA Secretary, Mr. Mustafa Zaidi to the Visitor is nothing but a sequel to the incorrigible design to damage the Aligarh Muslim University, he added.
While clarifying on the issue of presiding over the convened meeting of the Executive Council, Prof. Azis said that AMUTA Secretary’s stand on this issue is illegal as the Vice Chancellor has not been found guilty on any of the baseless allegations levelled against him.
Commenting on the curbs imposed on him, the Vice Chancellor said the restriction is totally illegal. AMUTA leaders are apparently behaving like puppets of certain politicians and the MHRD. The stand taken by them is violation of the AMU Act, he added.
Prof. Azis felt that in the guise of appraisal to the Visitor, blatant lies were constantly fed to the Visitor’s office by the AMUTA Executive without the required mandate of the AMU larger teaching community. Its hidden agenda will cause irreparable damage to the University and its effective functioning.
On the issue of objection raised by Mr. Zaidi, relating to AMU Malappuram Director becoming the member of the Executive Council and other University bodies, the Vice Chancellor said the AMUTA Secretary should read and understand the meaning of the Section 28 (6) and 29(5) of the AMU Act which explicitly states that a new Statute becomes operational with the approval of the Visitor. The Membership accorded to the Director of the Malappuram Centre is as legal as any other action taken under the said provision, he added.
Referring to the description “the much appreciated directives from the Visitor restraining Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis”, the AMU Vice Chancellor reiterated that the referred to restriction is totally illegal. The mood of celebration on this count by AMUTA Secretary reflects its total disrespect and disregard to AMU Act as no such curbing provision exists in the Act. Anyone who supports anything that is extraneous to the Act will virtually be doing a great disservice to the University and its legitimate ethos to protect the University structure and its functioning from any illegitimate onslaught. The visionary AMU Act makers have made every provision in the Act to insulate the institution from unwarranted extraneous interference.
Prof. Azis explained that the meeting of the Executive Council scheduled on 17.09.2011 had to be postponed as two members gave a notice of absence, designed to create a ‘No Quorum’ situation as used to be done by the former eight Executive Council members earlier in similar fashion.
AMUTA representatives and their collaborators could feel happy that they could sabotage the democratic functioning of the Executive Council and the Court where they could never enjoy any worthwhile support in the last four years. Well-meaning teachers should understand the nefarious design with which they are collaborating with the anti-education, anti-Muslim and anti-AMU forces working in the Government and outside, he added.
The University hopes that the Ministry of Human Resource Development would not again fall into the trap laid by AMUTA and others and further harm the interest of the University, the Vice Chancellor concluded.