Latest from UP CM: A varsity half reserved for minorities

A day after scrapping the controversial government order on closing schools on Fridays to facilitate Muslims to offer prayers, the UP government today constituted an integral university, which would reserve upto 50 per cent seats for students belonging to the minority community.

The bill was passed by the Vidhan Sabha by voice vote despite opposition from BJP members.

The university would be set up after dissolving a voluntary organisation, Islamic Council for Productive Education Society, which runs schools, colleges, including a technical institute in Lucknow.

Demanding that