LUCKNOW, July 22 -- A 28-member Samajwadi Party (SP) delegation, comprising 15 sitting MLAs, 10 former MLAs and three district presidents, will submit a memorandum to Rampur district magistrate (DM) Ajay Kumar Dwivedi on Thursday, demanding an immediate halt to the proposed demolition of 38 buildings at Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar University.

The party has termed the Rampur Development Authority's (RDA) demolition order "contrary to the spirit of the Constitution" and a violation of the Right to Education. "This move will deprive thousands of poor, backward, and Dalit students of access to higher education," the SP said in a statement. The party also appealed to students and their parents to unite in saving the institution.

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