Students of Aligarh Muslim University, protesting against the procedure followed for calculating attendance, on Monday offered flowers to varsity officials and took up brooms in the ‘Gandhigiri’ style popularised by Bollywood hit Lage Raho Munnabhai .
Leaders of the AMU Students Union swept the road with brooms in front of the Registrar’s office after having earlier presented flowers to senior University officials as part of their agitation continuing since the past two days.
The union is demanding action against the Dean, Faculty of Management and another teacher of the same faculty.
Their major demand pertains to granting permission to a student to appear in an examination in the faculty of Business Administration after his attendance had fallen short of the mandatory minimum percentage.
The students have alleged that a “faulty procedure” was being adopted for calculating attendance in classes. On the other hand, the University authorities made it clear that they were not ready to relent on the issue of relaxing the minimum required attendance criteria.
The AMU had on Saturday suspended a student for allegedly trying to disrupt the examination on November 12. The President of AMU Students Union Nafees Ahmad has also been issued a show-cause notice in this connection.
AMU Vice-Chancellor Naseem Ahmad on Monday appealed to the students not to embroil the university in any agitation pertaining to relaxation of attendance criteria “because in the long term, effects of such a move would be very harmful”.
In an open letter to the students, he said a senior official would hold a time-bound probe into the issue.
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