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SP holds Congress, Arjun responsible for AMU tangle

Demands special Parliament session

LUCKNOW: Holding HRD Minister Arjun Singh responsible for the Allahabad High Court verdict scrapping minority status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), the ruling Samajwadi Party on Monday charged the Congress with drawing political mileage from the tangle.

SP general secretary and State Urban Development Minister Mohammad Azam Khan said here that Congress and the HRD Minister should be held responsible for the AMU episode. ``When everyone knows that without amending the Constitution the minority status of the university would be struck down, then why did the Centre not do the needful,'' he questioned. ``The Congress was only trying to derive political mileage from the issue and they are waiting for the right time to go for the amendment to the Constitution,'' he alleged.

Accusing Mr Singh of backstabbing the minorities, Mr Khan said the HRD Minister was also responsible for issues like imposition of emergency in 1975 and Ayodhya demolition in 1992, as on both occasions, the then prime ministers had acted on his advice. Demanding that the UPA Government at Centre immediately convene a special session of Parliament to amend Articles 25, 29 and 30 of the Constitution, the SP leader said the HRD Ministry should quickly work upon it. UNI

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