Bir Devinder calls move a ploy to usurp prime land
Sunday, 31/01/2016
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab’s former deputy speaker Bir Devinder Singh on Saturday said the idea to establish Khalsa University, Amritsar, in the private sector “manifests the blind lust of Satyajit Singh Majithia”, a close relative of the chief minister, to usurp the prime land of Khalsa College, Amritsar.
In a statement issued here, Bir Devinder said the move fell through in 2011 after it was thoroughly opposed by the stakeholders and the Sikh community. “I’m afraid it seems the mischievous motive of the RSS through their agents to destroy the exalted glory of the 124-year-old minority institute of the Sikh community,” he said.
“The courses they propose to run at the university could well be designed within the curricula of the autonomous college,” he said.
