Jinnah row: After uproar in AMU, now its founder's portrait removed
After the uproar over Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the Aligarh Muslim University, now a fresh incident of removing the portrait of AMU's founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan has come to the fore. A portrait of AMU founder Sir Syed Ahmed Khan has been removed in PWD's guest house in Aligarh. There are also objections been raised by another Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader to Jinnah House and Jinnah Hall in Mumbai.
Mumbai BJP MLA Prabhat Lodha has demanded that Jinnah House and Jinnah Hall should be converted to cultural centres and that Jinnah's name must be removed from them, as reported by Zee News.
Earlier on Saturday, Aligarh Muslim University students continued the indefinite dharna and boycott of academic activities for the third day, demanding action against the right-wing protesters, who entered the campus and demanded the removal of Jinnah's portrait from the student union's office.
Police on Wednesday had resorted to lathicharge, lobbed teargas shells to disperse AMU students demanding the arrest of protesters who had barged into the campus,
The
Jinnah
row
started
after
BJP's
Aligarh
MP
Satish
Gautam
wrote
to
AMU
raising
objections
to
the
portrait.
The
University
said
portraits
of
all
life
members
of
the
student
union
hang
there.
Jinnah,
a
founder
member
of
the
University
Court,
had
also
been
given
this
honour
before
Partition.
AMU
vice-chancellor
Tariq
Mansoor
on
Friday
visited
the
Jawaharlal
Nehru
Medical
College
Hospital
where
three
of
the
students
injured
in
the
police
lathi-charge
are
being
treated.
agitating
over
the
portrait
of
the
Pakistan
founder.
Meanwhile, AMU Teachers' Association (AMUTA) has sent a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind asking him to "urgently institute" a high-level judicial probe into the incident.
Jinnah, a lawyer and politician, was the founder of Pakistan and also served as the leader of All-India Muslim League from 1913 until Pakistan's independence on August 14, 1947.