Students vs administration over Iftar dinner at BHU

Dozens of students took to the streets, strongly opposing the dinner and demanded that the Vice-Chancellor come forward and apologize.

The ruckus over the iftar party at the Banaras Hindu University's Women's College is far from over. On Wednesday, an iftar party, organized at the Mahila Mahavidyalaya, was attended by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Sudhir Kumar Jain.

Soon, students began protesting. They even recited the Hanuman Chalisa in front of the university as a counter to the iftar.

Dozens of students took to the streets, strongly opposing the dinner and demanded that the Vice-Chancellor come forward and apologize. According to them, for a long time, fasting during Ramzan never happened in the university and it is not right to organize it suddenly and the Vice Chancellor attends it too.

However, the college administration has a completely different explanation: Iftar has been a tradition of women's college and it was suspended for two years because of the pandemic.

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“Iftar dinners had been organized earlier on different occasions and the previous vice chancellors have also participated. It was only during the pandemic that it was not organized. There have been several cultural and religious events at the university premises,” Professor Dr Rajesh Singh told India Today TV.

Students are not willing to stand down. Some even went on to say that they would not allow BHU to turn into JNU.