Did Presidency University allow Iftar after denying Saraswati Puja? What everyone knows

On April 5, Dawat-e-Iftar was organised on the campus of Presidency University in Kolkata, West Bengal to ‘uphold the spirit of plurality.’ As many as 750 people took half throughout the congregation held on Wednesday evening. According to tales, the iftar was organised by some boarders of hostels throughout the school for Muslim school college students.

Some school college students staying on the Eden Hindu Hostel of the Presidency University reportedly hosted the Iftar on the underside throughout the Hostel compound. Reportedly, the event was not restricted to solely the Muslim borders of the hostel, reasonably school college students of Presidency University, Jadavpur University and Calcutta University moreover joined the Iftar feast, taking the general number of school college students congregated to just about 750.

The event was supposedly organised to ‘spread the message of communal harmony and show that the Presidency upholds the spirit of plurality,’ said Hindu school college students like Arpan Maji, Rajarshi Barman and Gobinda Barman who had hosted the event.

After the Iftar social gathering was held on the school hostel, a lot of people on social media recognized how the similar varsity had recently denied permission for the celebration of Saraswati Puja for allegedly ‘maintaining secularism’ on the campus. West Bengal BJP chief Keya Ghosh claimed that whereas the school allowed the iftar social gathering, the similar school didn’t allow Saraswati Puja in January this yr.

Dawat-e-iftar in Presidency College’s Eden Hindu hostel.
Plz keep in mind, Presidency University did not allow Saraswati Puja contained in the compound citing it goes in opposition to “secular” nature of the institution. pic.twitter.com/5Q7LBSU9X3

— Keya Ghosh (@keyakahe) April 5, 2023

However, whereas it is true that Saraswati Puja has on no account been celebrated on the school campus, it would not indicate the school has allowed an Iftar social gathering contained within the campus. The school has been denying all non secular events along with Saraswati Puja on campus for a really very long time.

In January this yr, Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, the student unit of TMC, submitted an utility to the Dean of Students on the lookout for permission to hold out Saraswati Puja on the premises of Presidency University.

They acknowledged throughout the letter that they intend to have enjoyable Saraswati Puja on the school premises this yr. They requested authorization to utilize the institution’s providers from January 25 to 27. However, the authorities refused to grant the permission. According to tales, the institution endorses DeRozio’s technique of ‘maintaining secularism’ on campus by forbidding worship.

Image provide: Hindu Post

Dissatisfied with the authorities’ refusal to provide permission, members of the TMC pupil wing staged a protest. After the Saraswati idol was denied entry to the institution, the students insisted on doing a Puja on the school’s important gate as a protest. As a finish end result, a makeshift mandap was constructed on the footpath outdoor the Presidency University’s important gate, and the Puja was held there.

Therefore, it is true that Saraswati Puja is simply not allowed contained within the school, nevertheless the story is totally completely different for hostels. In actuality, the Eden Hindu Hostel, which organised the Iftar Party, had organised Saraswati Puja moreover this yr. The hostel’s unofficial Facebook net web page has a lot of photos of the puja held in January 2023.

Saraswati Puja in Eden Hindu Hostel, Presidency University

After the hostel was questioned for organising the Islamic event, a lot of clients posted on the Facebook Page saying that whereas the school would not allow non secular events, the hostel has its private separate custom, and similar to it organised iftar, it had moreover organised Saraswati Puja.

Hence, the actual fact is that it is the Hindu hostel that organised the Iftar social gathering, and Saraswati Puja was moreover held earlier within the similar hostel. There is not any report of any Iftar social gathering held contained within the University’s important instructional campus. However, it is not clear whether or not or not the hostel boarders must take permission to hold such events throughout the hostel compound.

Iftar in Eden Hindu Hostel, Presidency University

On the other hand, the students had requested to organise the puja on the Portic area of the school, which was not granted.

OpIndia talked to Presidency University for his or her suggestions on the iftar social gathering, nevertheless the school official who obtained the choice said that they are not authorised to say one thing on the matter. The particular person moreover knowledgeable us that nobody else will discuss it so we should all the time not identify them as soon as extra.

Hindus celebrating Ram Navami stopped from stepping into Presidency University in Bengaluru

Notably, solely per week prior to now, violence had erupted throughout the Bengaluru campus of Presidency University after Hindu school college students had been denied permission to have enjoyable Ram Navami. According to native tales, on the occasion of Ram Navami on March 30, some devotees had gone to the Presidency University near Dibbur in Lahanka Taluk of Bangalore sporting saffron shawls throughout the afternoon to distribute Prasad. Some leftist school college students on the Presidency University stopped the devotees from stepping into the school, ensuing within the devotees staging a protest on the campus gate.

As the uproar elevated, members of a lot of Hindu organizations gathered and commenced protesting in entrance of the school. Later, Rajanukunte police reached the spot and the Hindu school college students had been made to go away the spot.

West Bengal burns all through Ram Navami celebrations whereas the administration seems away

On Thursday (March 30), stones had been pelted on a Ram Navami procession from the terraces of the buildings throughout the Shibpur area of Howrah. This led to a battle between the Hindu and Muslim groups, leading to violence and arson. Vehicles and retailers had been moreover torched all through the assault. Several disturbing films of the incident went viral on social media.

Three days after Islamists unleashed mayhem all through the Ram Navami procession throughout the Shibpur area of Howrah in West Bengal, on Sunday, April 2, a latest bout of violence erupted in Rishra in West Bengal’s Hooghly district.

The incident occurred when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was taking out a ‘Shobha Yatra’ throughout the area. Miscreants pelted stones on the procession, leaving a lot of people, along with thought of certainly one of BJP’s native legislators, gravely injured. Following the incident, prohibitory orders had been imposed and the online was suspended.

While West Bengal continued to burn, the ruling dispensation led by CM Mamata Banerjee was busy whitewashing Islamist atrocities throughout the state by first invoking their faith and second, blaming the violence on ‘outsiders.’ She insisted that Hindus should not enterprise into “Muslim areas” to carry out processions.