Lok Sabha: Scrapping Maulana Azad Fellowship is an anti-minority move, says Congress
The fellowship was launched in 2009 to provide financial assistance to students from Buddhist, Christian, Jain, Muslim, Parsi and Sikh communities.
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The fellowship was launched in 2009 to provide financial assistance to students from Buddhist, Christian, Jain, Muslim, Parsi and Sikh communities.
Union Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani had said that the decision was taken as the fellowship overlapped with other schemes.
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) on Sunday staged a demonstration on the JNU campus against the demolition of the house of activist and former JNU student Afreen Fatima in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj.
Authorities have decided to continue curfew restrictions under Section 144 of the CrPc in J&K's Doda and Kishtwar towns to maintain law and order as the groups of two communities have been accusing each other of stoking communal tensions after some miscreants posted purported announcements from a local mosque.
The warning by JNU came a day after two groups of students clashed at the varsity's Kaveri Hostel on Sunday allegedly over serving of non-vegetarian food on Ram Navami in the mess, , JNU Row, JNU Protest