New Delhi: After Hyderabad varsity and JNU, Allahabad University is at the centre of a row that escalated on Tuesday with eight Opposition parties targeting HRD Minister Smriti Irani over alleged harassment of its student's union president, accusing her of acting like ABVP's "patron saint".

"We are agonized over the fact that the first ever lady President of Allahabad University Student's Union Richa Singh,
a PhD scholar, is being harassed by the administration...," the parties that included Congress, Left and AAP said in a joint statement.