[1]Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi, who was criticised for praising Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in February this year, has been removed as the Vice-Chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband University today.
The decision was taken at a meeting attended by a three-member Majlis-e-Shoora or the governing council of Darul Uloom.
The governing council constituted a three-member committee, comprising Mufti Mazoor Ahmad from Kanpur, Mufti Mohammad Ismail from Malegaon and Maulana Mohammad Ibrahim from Chennai.
Vastanvi, however, said the decision is unacceptable, and added that he would not accept an incomplete report.
Vastanvi, who hails from Surat and was elected vice-chancellor on January 10, was subjected to protests from seminary students after saying that Muslims should forget the communal pogrom of 2002 and move on and that the community did not face discrimination in Gujarat-led by Modi.
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