Rampur Development Authority Orders Demolition of Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar University Buildings

On 15 July 2026, the Rampur Development Authority (RDA) declared 38 out of 40 buildings of Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar University illegal and ordered their demolition. The authority says that these 38 buildings were built without building permission. The university management has been given 15 days. If they do not demolish the buildings themselves, the administration will run a bulldozer. The Samajwadi Party (SP) has opened a full front against this. From the party's national president Akhilesh Yadav to MP Mohibullah Nadvi have called it'political revenge '. Mohammad Ali Jauhar was a great hero of India's freedom struggle, a journalist, an educationist and a poet. Born on 10 December 1878 in Rampur State (Uttar Pradesh), Jauhar completed his studies at Oxford University. He became a member of the Muslim League in 1906 and was elected president of the Muslim League in 1917. He was also the president of the Indian National Congress in 1923. At the first Round Table Conference in London in 1930, Maulana Jauhar said,'If you give me a free grave in London, you will give us a'jauhar'( grave) in India.