University Of Jammu Forms Panel To Review Syllabus After ABVP Protests Against The Mention Of Jinnah

The University of Jammu has formed a high-level committee to examine its postgraduate political science syllabus following protests by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad over the mention in a chapter on Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

The revised syllabus, prepared for the 2026-28 academic session under the National Education Policy 2020, places Jinnah within the ‘Modern Indian Political Thought’ module under the paper ‘Minorities and the Nation’.

Reportedly, the ABVP Jammu and Kashmir secretary, Sannak Shrivats, led the protestors who assembled on campus on Friday, raising slogans against the administration and tearing posters of Jinnah, demanding immediate withdrawal of the chapter.

As per the ABVP, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Mohammad Ali Jinnah are being presented as representatives of the minorities. ‘These were the same individuals who propounded the two-nation theory and played a role in partition, and teaching about them raises serious concerns”, the ABVP leader said.

The student organisation termed the decision unacceptable and warned that it would launch a wider agitation across J&K if the university did not revoke the inclusion.

As per the order issued by the office of the dean of academic affairs, the committee has been tasked with conducting a thorough review of the issue and submit its report as earliest. The panel will be headed by the physics department head and will include the head of departments of philosophy, history, and sociology, the director of the dpeartment of strategic and regional studies. The assitant registrar will serve as the member secretary.

However, the HoD of the political science department Baljit Singh Mann defended the syllabus calling its a purely academic and consistent with the UGC norms. The objective is to present different perspectives to students. This is annd academic exercise not advocacy, he said.