'BJP event at Aligarh Muslim University may spark unrest'

November 28, 2014 10:15

The Aligarh Muslim University has written to Education Minister Smriti Irani warning of a potential "communal conflagration" in the campus over an event planned by local BJP activists on Monday.

In a sharply-worded letter, the university's Vice Chancellor Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah has opposed the local BJP unit's plan to mark the birth anniversary of Jat leader and freedom fighter Raja Mahendra Pratap within the campus on December 1.

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