‘Arif Mohammad Khan a good orator’

Khan is appointment as the governor of Kerala, Vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor has congratulated Khan who is an alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim university.

Updated on: Sep 3, 2019, 13:17:32 IST

Hindustan Times, Aligarh | By Hemendra Chaturvedi

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Another golden chapter has been added to the history of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) with Arif Mohammad Khan’s appointment as the governor of Kerala. Vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor has congratulated Khan who is an alumnus of the university.

Arif Mohammad Khan’s appointment as the governor of Kerala. (Vipin Kumar/HT PHOTO)

“Arif Mohammad Khan was elected honorary secretary of the Aligarh Muslim University Students’ Union (AMUSU) in 1971-72. A good orator and student leader, he rose to become the president of AMUSU because of his popularity,” recalled Rahat Abrar, director of Urdu Academy (AMU) who too was a student of this varsity in the 1970s and a junior of Arif Mohd Khan.

“There was an AMU Amendment Act in 1972. Finding its provisions against the minority character of the university, Arif Mohammad Khan, then president of AMUSU, opposed it tooth and nail,” stated Abrar.

“Khan kept in touch with his alma mater AMU as he was from Bulandshahr. He was named member of the prestigious AMU Court in the eighties. He did his graduation from AMU and pursued post graduation in political science,” informed Rahat Abrar.

“Reshma, wife of Arif Mohammad Khan, too was a law graduate from AMU and was an effective voice from the Women’s College of AMU. She got married to Khan in 1977,” he stated.

In the past also, AMU has given governors to independent India and undivided India. The list of luminaries includes Dr Zakir Hussain - governor of Bihar; Mohd Shafi Qureshi – governor of Bihar, WB and MP; Prof S Noorul Hasan – governor for West Bengal, MP and UP; Mohd Usman Arif – governor of UP; Babu Parmananda – governor of Haryana and AR Kidwai – governor of Bihar, West Bengal and Haryana, informed Rahat Abrar.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Hemendra Chaturvedi
Hemendra Chaturvedi is a senior journalist based at Agra. He covers eight districts of Agra and Aligarh division namely Agra, Mathura, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Aligarh, Etah, Kasganj and Hathras. He had been with HT since 1992 and has completed three decades of association with HT and has worked for Hindustan Times only all through his career of about 35 years. Having Masters in Chemistry, Hemendra is also a law graduate with diploma in Personnel Management and has utilised broad based academic qualifications in his indepth, accurate and high impact stories from this part of western Uttar Pradesh while being based in the city of Taj Mahal. In such long span of career with Hindustan Times, Hemendra Chaturvedi has led his team of reporters which was instrumental in bringing out supplements including Region Scan, Agra Live, HT City time to time and proven his leadership qualities and has made presence of HT felt in the region covered by him. In the process of time, Hemendra has attained expertise in a variety of beats, being sole reporter for HT and has covered Aligarh Muslim University, Taj Mahal centric tourism, religiously sensitive city of Mathura and had been witness to Agra Summit having attendance of top leaders of India and Pakistan.Read More