Ghulam Vastanvi removed as VC of Darul Uloom

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Ghulam Vastanvi removed as VC of Darul Uloom

DEOBAND: Controversial vice-chancellor of Darul Uloom Maulana GhulamMohammed Vastanvi, who had raised the hackles of conservatives by praising Narendra Modi, was on Sunday removed from his post by a powerful body of the institution.

Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani, who was appointed acting vice chancellor after the controversy broke out in January this year, will be the new head of the institution.

"Thevice-chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband (Vastanvi) has been removed from his post," Nomani, who is in his 60s, said after a meeting of the powerful Majlis-e-Shura here.

He said while nine members of the committee voted in favour of 60-year-old Vastanvi's removal, four others voted against the move.
Hugely retrogade move on the part of the deoband.
 
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This is more about battle of supremacy between clerics from Mah/Guj vs. Clerics from UP/Bihar.Once the votes are known in detail then it will be clearer. Modi is just being made a scapegoat of internal politics.
 

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Ghulam Vastanvi removed as VC of Darul Uloom



Hugely retrogade move on the part of the deoband.
See when someone within their own community is trying to admire the positive aspects of some leader, he is getting stripped off his position due to votebank politics. This means that there are many like this dude who want to be progressive, forget past and make a new future. But most in the position of authority won't let this happen.
 

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Lol he didnt get stripped because of vote bank politics but the internal politics of the D'band.
 

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It is internal politics and the Madani family is said to be interested, IIRC

Interestingly, he was cleared by a Inquiry regarding the pro Modi remark.

He has stated that he will not go to court. He has instead taken off for the UK to raise funds for a Medical University.
 
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As Ray has pointed out it was the internal politics of Madani family at work. They split and Vastanvi got elected and then they got together and threw out the outsider.

Vastanvi sacking: A scheming, political game

The tale of deceit and treachery which has accounted for the summary sacking of the Darul Uloom's VC in six months of his assuming office compares better with the stereotypes on how ruthless palace coups can be planned and executed with meticulous detail and on how warring clan members can brush aside in house hostility to combat the challenge mounted by an outsider threatening to run away with the family silver.

One will have to go back a little in time to understand the political complexities of not just Vastanvi's ouster but also the internal politics of Darul Uloom and the Madani clan who wish run it like some kind of a zamindari.

Darul Uloom in Deoband has been run almost like a family fiefdom by the politically savvy and ambitious Madani family almost since its inception. Their stranglehold on this prestigious seat of learning of Sunni Islam only grew post independence as the elders in the family also controlled and led one of the biggest Muslim organizations in the country Jamiat–Ulema-E-Hind. The Jamiat which supported the nationalist stream of thought during the Indian freedom struggle and opposed the Jinnah-led Muslim League reaped the fruits of being on the right side of the congress party post 1947.
So in January when Vastanvi was appointed, the turf war between Arshad and his nephew, Mehmood Madni, was at its bitter peak. By now The Madanis had also come into conflict with Badruddin Ajmal, their erstwhile appointee in Assam who had become too powerful and independent in the last few years to take instructions from Delhi as if he were a Subedar heading a Jamiat outpost in faraway Assam. Ajmal is now the leader of opposition in Assam and his political party a force in its own right in the bordering state.

To cut the story short a confluence of anti-Arshad Madni forces saw Vastanvi emerge as an unlikely consensus candidate for the VC's post and he humbled the powerful Arshad Madani with the support of his estranged nephew Mehmood Madani and Badruddin Ajmal.

But within days of Vastanvi's appointment as V-C, the powerful Madani clan realized their family dispute has allowed an outsider to take control of a prized family possession. With his background, experience and standing in the community, Vastanvi was also more assertive whereas Mehmood Madani —who had tacitly supported Vastanvi against his Uncle—was only used to having yes men running the institution.
Then there was the issue of the Gujarati Vastanvi being an outsider in an institution which was always headed by a north Indian Muslim, mostly from UP and Bihar.
The news item can be accessed here : http://www.firstpost.com/politics/vastanvi-sacking-a-scheming-political-game-47639.html
 

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Now he says it wasn't Modi. Muslims in Gujrat worked hard so they prospered.
So that implies muslims of other states are sore losers? Spineless !!

Gujrat's story has protagonists in both - the governance as well as the people. You have to give credit to both.
If it were only one of these, other states would've repeated the Gujrat success many times over by now.

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What will this organisation do if ever Modi become PM will they maintain there stance? I hope so atleast it will not affect their credibility
 

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