The Bajrang Dal on Monday protested two students who reportedly offered namaz on the Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) campus in Vadodara city. Reportedly, videos of their namaz went viral, with the authorities calling in police to maintain law and order as exams were going on. The students are reported to be from the Faculty of Commerce.
On learning about the incident, members of the Bajrang Dal protested by sprinkling Ganga Jal and chanting the Hanuman Chalisa where the students reportedly offered namaz.
According to RG Jadeja, inspector of Sayajigunj police station Vadodara: “We have not registered an FIR yet as no one approached us with a formal complaint. It is the internal matter of the university.”
However, MSU PRO Lakulish Trivedi claimed that a vigilance team from the university rushed to the spot and called police as exams were going on.
“Both were second year B.Com students and were offering namaz before going inside for exams. The university administration will call them for counselling in the coming days to make them understand that this is an educational institution and they should refrain from such activities on campus,” he added.
The video was purportedly shot Monday morning near the General Education Building inside the campus.
On December 24, another video had gone viral of a couple from another district offering namaz on the campus. They had come with their child who was to take the exam on Course on Computer Concepts (CCC), the centre for which was MSU.
According to president of Bajrang Dal Vadodara cell, Ketan Trivedi: “We were told by the MSU vigilance cell about two students who offered namaz in the campus on Saturday. Exams are going on. The vigilance cell stopped them and they promised not to repeat the action. But on Monday, namaz was done intentionally by two boys on the university campus. So we protested.”
Adding that, he stated: “We purified all those spots where they did namaz with Ganga Jal and recited Hanuman chalisa.”
Trivedi said that they also went to meet MSU vice-chancellor but he was not available and a statement by the wing was handed to the public relations officer.
On learning of the incident, BJP’s national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, who was in Vadodara, remarked that people should not indulge in such religious activities inside educational campuses.
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