Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati severely charged the BJP led NDA government at the Centre of saffronisation higher educational institutions. She held the RSS responsible for trying to convert these institutions into places promoting divisive forces.
"The act of the BJP-RSS in higher educational institutions in the last two years have badly affected the education system. Besides interference in these institutions, the Centre has also created a political divide among students," she said in a press statement issued in lucknow on Thursday.
Reminding the statement of the VC of Allahabad University issued on Wednesday, Mayawati said that after Hyderabad University and JNU, now the RSS was attacking Allahabad University and the VC's outburst proves the government interference in day to day work of the university.
"Politics has created controversy over the online and offline admission in the varsity forcing the VC to offer his resignation," she alleged. Mayawati said that the BJP and the SP are equally responsible for vitiating the atmosphere in Allahabad University forpolitical gain ahead of the Asssembly polls..
The BSP chief also demanded that industrialist Vijay Mallya be brought back to India from Britain and be forced to face the law for his criminal act.
" If Mallya was not brought here, then it would be deemed that the Union government was tracitly supporting the fugitive industrialist and was involved in his escape from the country," she alleged.