The parties’ leaders were reacting a day after the Punjab cabinet cleared the decks for establishing ‘Khalsa University’. Both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) plan to scrap the decision to set up a private university on the campus of Khalsa College in Amritsar. AAP spokesman Sukhpal Singh Khaira issued a statement in Chandigarh that “formation of Khalsa University is an attempt by the Majithia family to grab the prestigious land of heritage Khalsa College”. Read: Cabinet okays varsity status to SGPC-run medical college; nod to Khalsa UniversityState Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh urged chief minister Parkash Singh Badal not to pass any act for it in the assembly. However, the college management has already said the heritage building of Khalsa College will stay untouched and the college will continue to remain as it is, while the university will come up separately.

Source: Hindustan Times July 13, 2016 16:18 UTC