Prasagraj: The days after being forced to cancel the poetic symposium on the campus on August 13, the University of Allahabad’s cultural committee has now been dissolved in the VC command Prof.
Sangita Srivastava through a notification issued by the AU Registrar Prof.
NK Shukla.
This symposium has attracted controversy when it happened to several poets that had become part of the anti-CAA protest in Shaheenbagh in New Delhi has also been invited to the symposium.
Mushaira and Kavi Sammelan All-India should be held on the AU campus on August 13 under the Aegis with Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy, the Cultural Committee of the Central AU and the Urdu Department, AU.
Prof.
Shabnam Hamid, Head of Department, and Prof.
Santosh Bhadauria, Chair of the Central Cultural Committee was actively involved in the preparation of the event.
However, Mushira was canceled at the last moment, despite the fact that almost all the poets were invited to arrive and so were the guests.
Sanjay Goyal Division Commissioner, who had previously remembered his approval to come as a leading guest, and AU representative Chancellor, who led his functions, refused to come.
Although the university authority was closed about the reasons behind the withdrawal of the last guest from the guest head and VC from the event, the sources informed that because the names of several Urdu poets were one of the invitations that had raised their voices against CAA and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Shaheen Bagh protested in Delhi last year.
When this problem became a viral on social media, both refused to attend the event and the same was canceled.
Now, the AU Central Cultural Committee, which was formed in December last year, was dissolved with direct effects.
Because asked why the committee was dissolved within eight months of its existence, the AU Public Relations Officer (PRO) Jaya Kapoor said, “AU administration has decided that there is a need for a new cultural committee.
Therefore, the existing committee is dissolved so that the new committee can take over” .