Capt slams cabinet nod to setting up Khalsa varsity, says will scrap it
Thursday, 14/07/2016
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I promise that the day Congress forms the government, we will restore back the Khalsa University’s status. The govt’s move may prove to be the last nail in Badals’ coffins. CAPTAIN AMARINDER SINGH, PPCC president
AMRITSAR: A day after the Punjab cabinet gave the nod for establishing Khalsa University on the campus of Khalsa College here, the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president, Captain Amarinder Singh, criticised the cabinet’s decision. He also asked Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal not to pass the act in the assembly.
“It is a part of our Khalsa history and heritage and today, I promise that the day Congress forms the government, we will restore back its status,” Amarinder said in a statement issued here on Wednesday. He warned, “It may prove to be the last nail in the Badals’ coffins”.
The college management has already said that the heritage building of the Khalsa College will stay untouched and the college will continue to remain as it is and stay affiliated with the Guru Nanak Dev University.
However, Amarinder alleged, “Majithias are doing to Khalsa heritage what Badals did to SGPC.”
The Amritsar MP had already protested the proposal in this regard in the past and even criticised the management after entering the college premises.
Asking the chief minister not to pass the act in the assembly, Amarinder, said, “Despite a lot of popular resentment, if he still goes ahead and misuses his brute majority in the assembly to enact the act for setting up the university, the Congress government will repeal it and restore the original status of the Khalsa College Amritsar.”
He yet again attacked the Majithia family while saying that they were behind the decision and had personal interests in it.
Questioning the very logic behind setting up the Khalsa University that will share boundary wall with the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, the PCC president suggested that if the Badals and the Majithias were serious about setting up an institution of higher learning, they should better have set up it in the southern Punjab around Mansa, Barnala or Sangrur, where there is no university. There are not even enough colleges in that area, he added. COLLEGE MANAGEMENT HAPPY WITH DECISION
A day after the Punjab cabinet cleared the decks to give private university status to Amritsar’s Khalsa University on the iconic Khalsa College campus, the college management thanked the Punjab government.
Extending his gratitude to CM Parkash Singh Badal and deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, historic Khalsa College Governing Council (KCGC) secretary Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina said KU will be a “professional, world class university”. He added the heritage building will be protected and the College continue under Guru Nanak Dev University.
KU, which will be managed by democratically elected 101-member Council, presently headed by Satyajit Singh Majithia, will focus on job-oriented courses.
This 1890 established charitable body which is already running 18 educational institutions including historic Khalsa College has already has vast experience in managing institutions of higher learning. “The varsity will be run by an elected body which is a non-profit making charitable society,” said Chhina.
