garh : A series of events were held at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) to mark Gandhi Jayanti, the commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi’s 153rd birth anniversary.
Prof Iqbalur Rehman (Chairman, Department of Political Science) administered the National Integration and Sanitation pledges in the Symposium on ‘Re-evaluating the Mahatma: Ideas and Practices of Gandhi’.
He called for showing dedication to strengthen the freedom and integrity of the Nation and to strive for cleaner and healthier surroundings in line with Gandhian principles.
Presiding over the programme, Prof Mirza Asmer Beg (Dean Faculty of Social Science) emphasised: “Mahatma Gandhi was a political ethicist, a nationalist and a lawyer whose ideologies and struggles drove India to its independence. He chose the path of non-violence which inspired civil rights movements across the world”.
Speaking on ‘Politics and Ethics of Gandhi’, Prof M Aftab Alam said, “Gandhi Ji’s life and political philosophy inspired world leaders like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King”.
“Mahatma Gandhi showed the world through his works, that it is possible to succeed with Ahmisa (non-violence) and Satyagraha (holding firmly to truth)”, he said quoting Albert Einstein’s famous words on Gandhi, ‘Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth’.
