Haryana women’s commission summons Ashoka University professor for remarks about Operation Sindoor
The Haryana State Commission for Women has summoned Ashoka University Associate Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad over his comments about Operation Sindoor, which the panel claimed “disparaged women officers in the Indian armed forces and promoted communal disharmony”, The Indian Express reported.
Mahmudabad, the head of the university’s political science department, was directed to appear before the commission on Wednesday.
In a social media post on May 8, Mahmudabad had highlighted the apparent irony of Hindutva commentators praising Colonel Sofia Qureshi.
“Perhaps they could also equally loudly demand that the victims of mob lynchings, arbitrary bulldozing and others who are victims of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s hate mongering be protected as Indian citizens,” he had said.
Mahmudabad had said that the optics of the press briefings by Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh were important, “but optics must translate to reality on the ground otherwise it’s just hypocrisy”.
The “grassroots reality” faced by Muslims was “different from what the government tried to show”, but the press briefings showed that “an India, united it its diversity, is not completely dead as an idea”.
In a separate post on Sunday, he said: “Civilians have always been impacted by war… So when you clamour for war or you call for a country to be wiped out then what exactly are you asking? For the genocide...
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