RSS functionary backs transfer of Muslim professor from BHU's religious department

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has again indicated that only Hindus were qualified to teach at the Sanskrit Vidya Dharma Vigyan Department of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU).On the controversy over the removal of Muslim teacher Feroze Khan, RSS ideologue and its joint general secretary Krishna Gopal has said that the department is about the teaching of Hindu rituals.Gopal was speaking at an event in the national capital celebrating the 158 birth anniversary of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, who was also the founder of the BHU."When the BHU was set up in 1916, before that an Act was passed in Parliament in 1915. There were two clauses in it -- one, the religious education for the Hindu students will be compulsory, and the second was, no non-Hindu would be the member of the court of the university. Later, both the clauses were removed," he said.He said that the objective of the department was to give religious education to Hindu children. Those who are interested in Hindu rituals