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From invoking Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid to rallying for Gaza and the ‘Ummah’: How Noman Ashraf’s Islamist pitch secured the AMU Students’ Union Presidency

In Aligarh Muslim University’s first student union election in eight years, Noman Ashraf secured the presidency not on campus welfare issues, but by ratcheting up Islamist rhetoric—championing UAPA-accused Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid, invoking the ‘Army of Ababeels’ for Gaza, and lamenting that police no longer tremble before entering the campus.

OpIndia 6/11/2026, 9:11:03 pm IST

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