09-25-2008, 02:53 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>PMO asks HRD to restrain Mushir </b>
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Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
The Central Government is unhappy over Jamia Millia Islamia Vice-Chancellor Dr Mushirul Hasan's statement to the Press that the university would provide legal aid to the two students picked up by the police for their alleged complicity in the recent Delhi blasts.Â
<b>According to sources, the Prime Minister's Office has asked the HRD Ministry to restrain the VC from making such statements, which could have far-reaching politicial repercussions.</b>
Sources said the PMO asked the HRD to see how the VC could commit the university fund for aiding alleged terrorists without consulting the Ministry.
Meanwhile, the BJP on Wednesday demanded the Centre should immediately dismiss Mushirul Hasan.
<b>"He heads an institution that runs with taxpayers' money. His doesn't occupy a private office. He did not adhere to the norms set by the Government. He must be sacked immediately,"</b> BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad told mediapersons.
The BJP questioned Hasan why he jumped the gun when the Constitution already provides for alternate arrangements if an accused does not get an advocate to argue his case.
"Will this not lead to a mad rush? Some other day, a university will announce to use public money for providing legal cover to any of its student involved in a petty crime. This is highly illogical," Ravi Shankar argued.
Terming the Hasan's announcement as "atrocious, anti-national and highly objectionable", senior BJP leader VK Malhotra said, "On the one hand, the Government and its police have arrested them; on the other, a Government-aided institution is defending them by providing legal aid. This is dichotomy," Malhotra said. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Had some Hindu University, SHame of India, Moron SIngh would have fired that guy and replaced him with some Imam of Azamgargh Durgah.
Pioneer.com
Pioneer News Service | New Delhi
The Central Government is unhappy over Jamia Millia Islamia Vice-Chancellor Dr Mushirul Hasan's statement to the Press that the university would provide legal aid to the two students picked up by the police for their alleged complicity in the recent Delhi blasts.Â
<b>According to sources, the Prime Minister's Office has asked the HRD Ministry to restrain the VC from making such statements, which could have far-reaching politicial repercussions.</b>
Sources said the PMO asked the HRD to see how the VC could commit the university fund for aiding alleged terrorists without consulting the Ministry.
Meanwhile, the BJP on Wednesday demanded the Centre should immediately dismiss Mushirul Hasan.
<b>"He heads an institution that runs with taxpayers' money. His doesn't occupy a private office. He did not adhere to the norms set by the Government. He must be sacked immediately,"</b> BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad told mediapersons.
The BJP questioned Hasan why he jumped the gun when the Constitution already provides for alternate arrangements if an accused does not get an advocate to argue his case.
"Will this not lead to a mad rush? Some other day, a university will announce to use public money for providing legal cover to any of its student involved in a petty crime. This is highly illogical," Ravi Shankar argued.
Terming the Hasan's announcement as "atrocious, anti-national and highly objectionable", senior BJP leader VK Malhotra said, "On the one hand, the Government and its police have arrested them; on the other, a Government-aided institution is defending them by providing legal aid. This is dichotomy," Malhotra said. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Had some Hindu University, SHame of India, Moron SIngh would have fired that guy and replaced him with some Imam of Azamgargh Durgah.