Vastanvi removed as Darul Uloom Deoband Vice Chancellor

Deoband, July 24 (ANI): Ghulam Mohammad Vastanvi, who was criticized for praising Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in February this year, was removed as the vice chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband University on Sunday.

The decision was taken at a meeting attended by a three-member Majlis-e-Shoora or the governing council of Darul Uloom.

The governing council constituted a three-member committee, comprising Mufti Mazoor Ahmad from Kanpur, Mufti Mohammad Ismail from Malegaon and Maulana Mohammad Ibrahim from Chennai.

Vastanvi, however, said the decision is unacceptable, and added that he would not accept an incomplete report, Times Now Channel reports.

Vastanvi, who hails from Surat and was elected vice-chancellor on January 10, was subjected to protests from seminary students after saying that Muslims should forget the communal pogrom of 2002 and move on and that the community did not face discrimination in Gujarat-led by Modi. (ANI)