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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nNEW DELHI: Protests were reported at Jamia Millia Islamia on Friday night as students raised slogans against Vice Chancellor Mazhar Asif during an annual hostel function, alleging his complicity in allowing an RSS-linked event on the university campus, according to ANI. According to videos circulating on social media and a press note issued by AISA-JMI, students residing in the boys\u2019 hostel objected to the Vice Chancellor\u2019s presence at the event and raised slogans, expressing anger over what they described as the \u201csaffronisation\u201d of the university space. The student body also alleged that the VC made derogatory remarks during the event, referring to protesting students in objectionable terms. However, there was no immediate response from the Jamia Millia Islamia administration. \u201cAt the annual event of the Boys hostel at Jamia Millia Islamia, the students of MMA Jauhar Hall raised slogans against the VC for his complicity in hosting the recent RSS event on the campus. Shamefaced, the vice chancellor resorted to derogatory comments about the students, referring to them as dogs on a public platform for expressing their dissent,\u201d Left-affiliated group AISA said in a statement. The incident comes amid a series of protests on campus over the recently held \u2018Yuva Kumbh\u2019 programme linked to the RSS centenary celebrations. Several student organisations, including SFI and AISA, had earlier staged demonstrations opposing the event, calling it an attempt to introduce \u201ccommunal and majoritarian politics\u201d into a public university space. On April 28, protesting students gathered on campus, raising slogans and demanding accountability from the university administration for granting permission to hold the event. The controversy has also been fuelled by the Vice Chancellor\u2019s remarks at the RSS-linked programme, where he spoke about \u201cMahadev\u2019s DNA\u201d in the context of Indian identity and suggested giving \u201cSanatan\u201d traditions a chance. These remarks drew sharp criticism from several student organisations, which termed them \u201cunscientific\u201d and \u201cundemocratic,\u201d arguing that such statements imposed a narrow definition of Indian identity on a diverse population.<\/div>\n