New Delhi: October 17, 2016. (PCP) Prof.Bhim Singh, Chief Patron of National Panthers Party today congratulated the staff and the students on the 199th Sir Syed Day celebration at Aligarh Muslim University which Sir Syed Ahmed Khan established in 1920. The University blossomed from a school which he founded in 1875. Prof.Bhim Singh was invited by the Celebration Committee being an Aligarian who studied from 1963 to 1966. Prof.Bhim Singh was imprisoned along with about 150 student leaders of AMU in 1965 for raising the voice of AMU for the preservation of University’s minority status. Prof.Bhim Singh acted as a Secretary of the Action Committee of the AMU and left remark of unity, brotherhood and secular ethos among the Aligarians. Prof.Bhim Singh was received by the provost of Sir Ziauddin Hall in the University, Dr. Imran Salim as the Chief Guest on the occasion. Mrs. Roohi Zuveri, former Vice President-AMU and great grand daughter-in-law of Sir Ziauddin was Guest of Honour. There were hundreds of past students and the AMU intellectuals and former student leaders were present at the function organised in the Hall on the occasion of 199th Birth Anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. Prof.Bhim Singh congratulated the university staff, students and past students who have made a mark of achievements in the different fields of life, literature, politics, science as well as in art and literature. Prof.Bhim Singh in his thanks message to the University organizer said that AMU is and shall be beacon light for the countrymen as well as to the world over, which has been spreading a lasting message of human love, glory and the growth of mankind for human peaceful co-existence which has been spreading from the corridor of Aligarh Muslim University founded by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.