Speaking to The Wire, Ali Khan Mahmudabad said he had been misquoted by legacy media and denied deleting any posts. He has described the notice as a new form of censorship.
New Delhi: The Haryana State Commission For Women on May 12 summoned Ali Khan Mahmudabad, head of the political science department at Ashoka University, over remarks on social media which the commission alleged vitiated communal harmony and “disparaged women in the armed forces.”
Attaching screenshots of two Facebook posts made by Mahmudabad regarding ‘Operation Sindoor’ and the public response surrounding it, the commission said a prima facie review of the posts revealed several concerns – including disparagement of women officers Colonel Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, misrepresentation of facts through terms such as “genocide,” “dehumanisation,” and “hypocrisy,” incitement of communal unrest and attack on national integrity, violation of women’s modesty, and breach of University Grants Commission ethics and guidelines for university faculty.
The Facebook posts
In a Facebook post on May 8, a day after India launched ‘Operation Sindoor’, Mahmudabad commented on the first national press briefing by the Indian armed forces.
He wrote that while he’s happy that right-wing commentators are praising Colonel Qureshi, “they could also equally loudly demand that the victims of mob lynchings, arbitrary bulldozing and others who are victims of the BJP’s hate mongering be protected as Indian citizens.”
“The optics of two women officers presenting their findings is important…” he wrote, “but optics must translate to reality on the ground; otherwise it’s just hypocrisy.”
He added that the press conference was, “just a fleeting glimpse – an illusion and allusion, perhaps – to an India that defied the logic on which Pakistan was built. As I said, the grassroots reality that common Muslims face is different from what the government tried to show, but at the same time the press conference shows that an India, united by its diversity, is not completely dead as an idea.”
In another post titled ‘The blind bloodlust for war’, he accused sections of the media, religious leaders, and politicians in both India and Pakistan of war mongering….
https://thewire.in/education/ali-khan-mahmudabad-ashoka-university-haryana-commission-women
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