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| Vastanvi resigns as Deoband VC after Modi remarks |
| 2011-01-27 |
| The newly appointed vice chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband in Uttar Pradesh, India, Maulana Ghulam Muhammad Vastanvi, has announced his resignation, an Indian TV channel reported on Wednesday. Maulana Vastanvi, an MBA, who hails from Surat in Gujarat ...where rioting seems to be a traditional passtime... , was elected VC on January 10, has been facing protests from students at the seminary after he had said that Mohammedans should forget the communal pogrom of 2002 and move on and that the community did not face discrimination in Chief Minister Narendra Modi's state, Gujarat. Maulana Vastanvi, who had recently praised development works in Gujarat, had earlier clarified that he had not given a clean chit to Modi in the 2002 riots. "Those who were involved in Gujarat riots should be punished," he told news hounds on Saturday at the seminary after taking charge and added that he has never praised BJP leader Modi. |
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