Bihar Education minister P K Shahi today wrote a letter to Union Human Resources Development minister M M Pallam Raju registering state government's protest over keeping it out of the function.
While Vice-Chancellor of AMU has requested the presence of the Governor of Bihar for the occasion, no such invitation has been sent to the state government, Shahi said in his letter.
"The foundation-laying is being done keeping the state government in complete dark and isolation. What is more intriguing is rather than HRD requesting, the Vice Chancellor of the university writing to the Governor of the state to be present at the occasion," he said.
"AMU is a Central government institution and any activity including foundation-laying ceremony has to be a government function," Shahi said.
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The Bihar minister reminded Raju that the state government has made available about 224 acres of land free of cost for setting up of the AMU centre at Kisanganj.
He said that for two years no step was taken by the Centre for setting up the campus on the land allocated for the purpose.