Caravan News
ALIGARH – An advocate practicing in the Aligarh Civil Court on Tuesday sent a notice to eminent historian Irfan Habib for allegedly comment on Home Minister Amit Shah’s name and Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar’s role in the two nation theory during a speech at the Aligarh Muslim University.
In a notice to Habib, lawyer Sandeep Kumar Gupta claimed that a speech delivered by the historian at the Aligarh Muslim University on Monday was “against the unity and diversity of India and it also challenges sovereignty”.
“You advised Amit Shah to remove Shah from his name as it is a Persian word, you said RSS was formed to attack Muslims, you blamed Hindutva idealogue Veer Savarkar of dividing the nation despite the fact that two-nation theory was propounded by Jinnah, you ridiculed the use of Gandhi’s spectacles in government’s Swachhata Abhiyan,” the notice was quoted by the news Agency as saying.
He sought a reply from Habib within seven days and asked him to publish an apology, warning him of strict legal action if not done so.
The historian’s alleged remarks come in the wake of the controversy over the new citizenship law, which has come into force last week.
