Aligarh BJP workers seek PM’s help to remove Jinnah’s portrait from AMU’s students’ hall

AGRA: Aligarh unit BJP workers on Thursday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in their blood, urging him to get the portrait of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah removed from the students’ hall of Aligarh Muslim University.

Blaming Jinnah for partition of the country, spokesperson of

BJP Aligarh

unit Shivang Tewari warned that they would be forced to take down the portrait “if the AMU authorities did not remove it themselves”. In 2018, a similar demand had been made by party MP Satish Gautam. It had resulted in a clash with university students when activists of various right-wing organizations had tried to force their way into the campus to remove the portrait.