PM Modi lectures students against politics in AMU

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the students and universities should move ahead with a common goal of development of the country, putting aside political differences. He urged students of Aligarh Muslim University to do research on freedom fighters about whom common people know little.

PM Modi speaking at the centenary celebrations today urged students to keep aside political and personal differences and work towards a common goal for the development of the country as a whole and help in the Aaatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan.

The PM said that when we talk of new India, the development of the nation should not be seen through a political lens.

On December 15 last year, the Uttar Pradesh police had descended upon AMU students with batons, pellet guns and tear-gas leaving several AMU students injured. The campus was closed the very next day and students asked to vacate the campus and leave for home. The campus Students had been protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019. It led to AMU extending its winter break “indefinitely”.

AMU and COVID-19

PM Modi also lauded efforts made by the AMU community during COVID-19 pandemic. AMU’s medical college, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, has been a quarantine centre and a COVID-19 testing facility from the beginning of the pandemic. “Getting thousands of people to do free tests, building isolation wards, building plasma banks and contributing a large amount to the PM Care Fund shows the seriousness of fulfilling your obligations to society,” said PM Modi.

Modi said: “It is also quite evident that when we come together for the development of the nation are some elements who have vested interest, and they try every possible measure to derail the effort, but they themselves get sidelined, the development of the country, poor, women, downtrodden cannot wait now, the development of the nation should be a collective effort.”

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