Muslim Organisations Burn ‘Anti-Jinnah’ Posters Outside BJP Office

The police also seized an effigy of Jinnah. No points for guessing what the protestors were going to do with it.

Muslim organisations on Saturday, 5 May, burnt ‘anti-Jinnah’ posters outside the BJP office in Lucknow in protest against a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). The police also seized an effigy of Jinnah from them.

Earlier this week, a clash broke out between AMU students and the police over the matter. Internet services were also suspended in Aligarh to prevent communal flare-up over the issue.

The controversy surrounding Jinnah's poster was triggered after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Aligarh MP Satish Gautam wrote a letter to AMU’s Vice-Chancellor seeking an explanation for the portrait of Pakistan’s founder in the students’ union office. The portrait of Jinnah has been hanging on a wall in the students union's office at AMU for several decades now.

Hindutva terror to remove Jinnah's portrait from #AMU student union office - AMU student union grants honorary memberships to prominent people, the first such given to Mahatma Gandhi in 1920. Similarly, to Jinnah in 1938, much before the demand of Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/aNUcyXZQUu

— Ashok Swain (@ashoswai) May 2, 2018

(With inputs from ANI)

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