After Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan called Prof. Irfan Habib a “gunda” for allegedly heckling him at the inauguration of the 80 th Indian History Congress (IHC) at Kannur University in 2019 amidst the Citizenship Amendment Act agitation, in a telephonic chat with The Hindu, Prof. Habib said that “he is entitled to say whatever he likes to say, but it is not what happened”. Mr. Khan had, in recent days, stepped up his attack against Kannur University Vice Chancellor Prof. Gopinath Ravindran, accusing the academic of “plotting to attack” him at IHC venue, and alleged that Prof. Habib tried to suppress his voice physically at the event.
Prof. Habib addressed these allegations in the chat:
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