Enemies of Muslims do not want our community to progress: Azam

UP minister and Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan today alleged that "enemies" of Muslims do not want the community to progress and go beyond learning Urdu and Persian.
Addressing a gathering here, Khan said that those opposed to the community do no want Muslims to have another eminent scientist and former President A P J Abdul Kalam.
Referring to Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in Rampur, he claimed that when a bill for its formation was tabled in the UP Assembly, a Congress leader had questioned as to why an institution set up for Urdu and Persian languages was planning to have medical and engineering courses.

"Our enemies want us to learn Urdu, our enemies want us to learn Persian but they do not want that we should have another (former President) Abdul Kalam among us," Khan said at a programme organised to felicitate him for setting up the university.
The SP leader rejected allegations that the university was set up as a means of earning extra revenue and claimed that it will impart education at reasonable fees to students from all sections of the society.