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NEW DELHI: Calling the caller University Grants Commission (UGC) rules a "black law," Bareilly metropolis magistrate Alankar Agnihotri resigned connected Monday, saying the caller rules meant for higher acquisition institutions could foment caste-based discontent.Agnihotri alleged that the caller UCC instrumentality would vitiate the world situation successful colleges and should beryllium withdrawn immediately.Agnihotri, a 2019-batch Provincial Civil Service officer, sent his resignation by email to Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and Bareilly District Magistrate Avinash Singh, the officials told quality bureau PTI.The caller rules notified by the UGC connected January 13 -- the Promotion of Equity successful Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026 -- person sparked wide disapproval from wide class students who reason that the model could pb to favoritism against them.The caller regulations, introduced to halt caste-based favoritism successful colleges and universities, inquire institutions to acceptable up peculiar committees, helplines and monitoring teams to grip complaints, particularly from SC, ST and OBC students.'Necessary to awaken'In his resignation letter, Agnihotri said helium becomes indispensable to "awaken" the authorities erstwhile it adopts policies that "divide nine and the nation".
Talking to reporters aft attending the Republic Day relation Monday morning, Agnihotri said that the caller UGC rules would pb to atrocities against Brahmins. The provisions were discriminatory and could pb to societal unrest and interior discontent, helium said.'I was held hostage'Levelling a superior complaint against the Bareilly territory magistrate Avinash Singh, Agnihotri, an alumnus of Banaras Hindu University (BHU) wherever helium studied B.Tech and LLB, said helium was held hostage and verbally abused, with radical astatine the DM's residence saying: "Pandit paagal ho gayaa hai" (Pandit has gone mad)."I was held hostage astatine the DM's residence for 45 minutes. A telephone came to the DM from Lucknow. I was verbally abused, and they said, 'pandit has gone huffy (pandit paagal ho gayaa hai). Keep him hostage each night.' I had already informed the media astir my situation. I was released astatine the behest of the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)," Agnihotri was quoted arsenic saying by quality bureau PTI.Avinash Singh, however, dismissed the allegations, saying that erstwhile Agnihotri came to spot him, each the Additional District Magistrates (ADMs), Sub-Divisional Magistrates (SDMs), Circle Officers, Local Intelligence Unit (LIU) officials, and the Senior Superintendent of Police of Bareilly were contiguous astatine the DM's residence.Politics erupts implicit the incidentPolitical leaders, peculiarly the ruling BJP's rivals, reacted to the development, saying that the resignation was a superior indicator of administrative pressure.Reacting to the development, authorities Congress president Ajay Rai called Agnihotri's resignation a superior issue.In an X station successful Hindi, Rai wrote, "The lathi complaint connected Shankaracharya (Avimukteshwaranand) and his disciples, and the administrative unit -- each this shows that nether the BJP rule, the Constitution, religion and state of look are each nether threat.
The information indispensable travel out. The authorities volition beryllium governed by the Constitution, not by fear," helium wrote.Senior Samajwadi Party person and erstwhile Bareilly MP Praveen Singh Aron besides responded to the development."The existent spot of governance lies successful upholding the principles of righteous regularisation (Raj Dharma) and law values. This is not a question of politics, but of the precise psyche of democracy," helium added.Meanwhile, Brahmin leaders person been gathering astatine the authorities impermanent location successful Bareilly since Monday afternoon.A nonmigratory of Kanpur Nagar, Agnihotri antecedently served arsenic a sub-divisional magistrate successful cardinal districts, including Unnao, Balrampur, and Lucknow. He is known successful administrative circles for his straightforward views and strict moving style. He has besides worked successful the United States.
