PM Modi to address AMU as chief guest today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the chief guest at the virtual centenary celebrations of Aligarh Muslim University on Tuesday, the first time in over five decades that a PM will attend an AMU event.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the chief guest at the centenary celebrations of the Aligarh Muslim University via video link on Tuesday.

Modi will attend the online function along with Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, an official statement said.

The prime minister would inaugurate the newly constructed campus gate. He is also expected to release a postal stamp and commemorative coffee table book.

Modi to address AMU as chief guest on Tuesday

After Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Shashtri, Narendra Modi will be the third Prime Minister to address at the centenary celebrations of the Aligarh Muslim University.

Modi will address the celebrations via video link on December 22 and he will be the first PM to address an AMU in the last 56 years. Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College became Aligarh Muslim University on December 1, 1920, following a gazette notification. AMU was formally inaugurated as a university on December 17 that year.