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Actor Paresh Rawal stunned by the protest of BHU students gainst appointment of Muslim professor's appointment for Sanskrit teaching

Actor Paresh Rawal stunned by the protest of BHU students gainst appointment of Muslim professor's appointment for Sanskrit teaching

| @indiablooms | 20 Nov 2019, 08:29 am

Mumbai/IBNS: Actor Paresh Rawal has said he is "stunned by the protest" by the students of Banaras Hindu University against the appointmewnt of  Muslim professor Firoze Khan in the Sanskrit faculty.

"Stunned by the protest against professor Feroze Khan. What has language to do with religion? Irony is professor Feroze has done his masters and PhD in Sanskrit (sic)," Paresh Rawal tweeted.

"By same logic great singer late Shri Mohammad Rafi ji should not have sung any bhajans and Naushad Saab should not have composed it," he added.

At least 30 students of the Sanskrit faculty of the university have been protesting for the last 12 days againstProf Khan's appointment as an assistant professor in the department outside Vice-Chancellor Rakesh Bhatnagar's office.

However, the students are saying that their protest against Prof Khan's appointment to Sanskrit-Vidya-Dharma-Vijnan-Sankaya, which had been established by the founder of BHU Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya for to "preserve and promote the studies of ancient Indian Shastras, Sanskrit language and literature", an NDTV report said.

They maintained that they had no problem if Prof Khan was appointed to the Sanskrit department, the report added.

To make their point, they are even performing Yajnas and reciting hymns.

According to students the very spirit of Sanskrit-Vidya-Dharma-Vijnan-Sankaya will be destroyed if tradition was unfollowed and the appointment of the said teacher is a step in that direction.

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