New Delhi: BJP has come in the support of Kerala Governor Aarif Mohammad Khan over the Kannur University incident and launched a scathing attack on Historian Irfan Habib.
Over the Kerala Governor's remark on Irfan Habib, BJP's National spokesperson Prem Shukla said, "The Governor of Kerala Arif Mohammad Khan has given his statement regarding the indecency of the historian Irfan Habib with the Chief Guest in his own program."
Prem Shukla added, "the people who know the Constitution are well aware that once the Parliament has made a law and if any person is speaking against that law in a program and if the Governor himself present at the event as chief guest, then he will reply to such people to such people in term of preserving the Constitution. And when Arif Mohammad Khan used his right to respond, the kind of uproar and indecency was there is a live example of the intolerance of Irfan Habib and his Marxist writers and historians."
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Inaugural meet of Indian History Congress does not raise controversies. But at 80th session at Kannur university, Shri Irfan Habib raised some points on CAA. But, when Hon'ble Governor addressed these points, Sh.Habib rose from seat to physically stop him, as clear from video pic.twitter.com/mZrlUTpONn
— Kerala Governor (@KeralaGovernor) December 28, 2019 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Inaugural meet of Indian History Congress does not raise controversies. But at 80th session at Kannur university, Shri Irfan Habib raised some points on CAA. But, when Hon'ble Governor addressed these points, Sh.Habib rose from seat to physically stop him, as clear from video pic.twitter.com/mZrlUTpONn
— Kerala Governor (@KeralaGovernor) December 28, 2019Inaugural meet of Indian History Congress does not raise controversies. But at 80th session at Kannur university, Shri Irfan Habib raised some points on CAA. But, when Hon'ble Governor addressed these points, Sh.Habib rose from seat to physically stop him, as clear from video pic.twitter.com/mZrlUTpONn
— Kerala Governor (@KeralaGovernor) December 28, 2019
It is to be noted that, Governor of Kerala Arif Mohammad Khan has alleged that the historian Irfan Habib tried to stop his inauguration speech at the 80th edition of the Indian History Congress in Kannur University and his 'intolerance' on different opinions was undemocratic.
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Hon'ble Governor said that he had responded to points raised by previous speakers,as a person duty bound to defend &protect the Constitution.But trying to disrupt speech from stage&audience due to intolerance towards different opinion is undemocratic #IndianHistoryCongress pic.twitter.com/UDCElnui7I
— Kerala Governor (@KeralaGovernor) December 28, 2019 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Hon'ble Governor said that he had responded to points raised by previous speakers,as a person duty bound to defend &protect the Constitution.But trying to disrupt speech from stage&audience due to intolerance towards different opinion is undemocratic #IndianHistoryCongress pic.twitter.com/UDCElnui7I
— Kerala Governor (@KeralaGovernor) December 28, 2019Hon'ble Governor said that he had responded to points raised by previous speakers,as a person duty bound to defend &protect the Constitution.But trying to disrupt speech from stage&audience due to intolerance towards different opinion is undemocratic #IndianHistoryCongress pic.twitter.com/UDCElnui7I
— Kerala Governor (@KeralaGovernor) December 28, 2019
In a series of tweets, he said that his speech was “interrupted on stage and from the audience”. He also accused professor Habib of trying to “physically stop him” from speaking. He claimed to have responded to points made by previous speakers as “a person duty-bound to defend and protect the Constitution”.
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Shri #IrfanHabib tried on stage to disrupt inaugural address questioning Hon'ble Governor's right to quote #MaulanaAbdulKalamAzad, shouting that he should quote Godse.He pushed Hon'ble Governor's ADC&SecurityOfficer, who prevented his unseemly gesture #IndianHistoryCongress pic.twitter.com/P7hA2HZQg8
— Kerala Governor (@KeralaGovernor) December 28, 2019 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
">Shri #IrfanHabib tried on stage to disrupt inaugural address questioning Hon'ble Governor's right to quote #MaulanaAbdulKalamAzad, shouting that he should quote Godse.He pushed Hon'ble Governor's ADC&SecurityOfficer, who prevented his unseemly gesture #IndianHistoryCongress pic.twitter.com/P7hA2HZQg8
— Kerala Governor (@KeralaGovernor) December 28, 2019Shri #IrfanHabib tried on stage to disrupt inaugural address questioning Hon'ble Governor's right to quote #MaulanaAbdulKalamAzad, shouting that he should quote Godse.He pushed Hon'ble Governor's ADC&SecurityOfficer, who prevented his unseemly gesture #IndianHistoryCongress pic.twitter.com/P7hA2HZQg8
— Kerala Governor (@KeralaGovernor) December 28, 2019
Another tweet said that the historian Irfan Habib questioned Arif Mohammad Khan's right to quote Abdul Kalam Azad and said in a loud voice that he should cite Nathuram Godse.
The office of Kerala Governor said that Arif Mohammad Khan was only doing his duty to protect the constitution by reacting to the points raised by the previous speakers but due to intolerance to the second vote, the speech was interrupted by the stage and the audience which was undemocratic.
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