Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh): Yuva Morcha, the youth wing of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday began a protest on Sunday evening demanding the removal of Pakistan's founding father Muhammad Ali Jinnah's picture from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). The protesters also put up Jinnah's images inside a public restroom located in old roadways bus stand premises of the Gandhi Park police station area in the city. The BJP leaders have made it clear that till Jinnah's picture in the Union Hall of Aligarh Muslim University is not removed, the protest will continue in this manner.
Shivang Tiwari, the Mandal spokesperson of Yuva Morcha, said, "I have pasted Jinnah's picture in the toilet. It is because Jinnah's picture should be in the toilet instead of the student union hall of AMU. Jinnah is responsible for having divided 'Bharat Mata' and he is the villain of India. Hence, his photograph should not be in the student union hall, instead be taken down from the university at the earliest. We will continue to protest in a peaceful manner till the picture of Mohammad Ali Jinnah is removed from AMU."
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Earlier, on September 9, several BJP office-bearers and workers, using their blood, had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding the removal of Jinnah's portrait from the student union hall of AMU. The workers, while raising slogans at the district headquarters, had even submitted a memorandum in this regard to the District Magistrate.
Satish Kumar Gautam, a Lok Sabha MP from the district, earlier during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections had claimed that if he would win the election, then within two years, he would send the picture of Mohammad Ali Jinnah to Pakistan after removing it from AMU. However, Jinnah's picture still remains in the student union building of AMU.
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