Jammu November 12 (Vijay Kumar) –– BJP J&K State unit President Ashok Khajuria on Thuresday alleged that the University of Kashmir has become a den of anti-India activities.
Addressing a press conference at party headquarters today in Jammu he said the latest example is the permission granted by the Kashmir University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Riaz Punjabi to a religious bigot and separatist Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani to use the University premises for provoking anti-India explosions and asking the students to take oath for Jehad, Azadi and Islam. This has happened for the first time in 50 years that the sanctity of an academic institution has been eroded by people like Geelani.
Ashoak Ashok Khajuria said Prof. Riaz Punjabi needs to be dismissed, arrested forthwith and proceeded against as per the law of the land. His dismissal has become all the more imperative in view of the fact that ever since his appointment as the Vice-Chancellor, the University of Kashmir has been conducting itself in a fashion like the Deoband School (Saharanpur), which only recently adopted a resolution asking the Muslims of the country not to sing national song Vande Matram as, according to it, it is anti-Islam, Khajuria said. He said besides Prof. Riaz Punjabi, legal action should also be taken against the State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who is the Pro-Chancellor of Kashmir University, and has given a free hand to the Vice-Chancellor for permitting anti-national activities in the campus. Simply arresting Geelani is not enough. Geelani is in habit of making such provocative and anti-national statements and if he sits quite, his shop will be closed. So, the Pro-Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor are more guilty for what Geelani uttered in the University premises.
The BJP is of the considered view that time has now come for the Union government to review its whole Kashmir policy and rein in the likes of Omar Abdullah, who have become a threat to national security and integrity.
Khajuria once again reiterated that the BJP will not allow the Govt. of India to announce any concession to the Kashmiri separatists and protagonists of Greater Autonomy and Self-rule as any such concession would not only give legitimacy to the cult of terror and politics of rabid communalism but would also dilute the Indian sovereignty in Jammu and Kashmir, thus helping Pakistan directly to achieve its sinister goals.