Hindu groups create ruckus at AMU after portrait of Jinnah goes missing
Two youths were injured in the police action
ALIGARH (Web Desk) – Tension has been reported from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) after police began lathicharging on agigtating students. Some cops even fired tear gas shells. The university gates have been closed, the report said.
Two youths were injured in the police action.
This all started when Hindu group activists held a dharna outside the gate soon after arrival of the former Vice-President Hamid Ali Ansari demanding removal of Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s portrait.
They also burnt an effigy of the founding member of the university and entered the campus forcibly. While the police was a mute spectator initiating no action against the agitating activists, they thrashed a few AMU students.
When AMU Students’ Union President M.A. Usmani and others came to the rescue of the students they were also attacked.
Following clash between the two groups, the police opened lathicharge and fired tear gas shells to disperse the mob. About a dozen students and activists were injured in the clash and police lathicharge.
Earlier, a day after a BJP MP in Uttar Pradesh questioned the portrait of Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah at the premises of Aligarh Muslim University, Hindu Yuva Vahini, an outfit founded by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the university to remove the portrait.
HYV vice-president Aditya Pandit had said if the portrait was not removed in two days, Vahini members would do it forcibly.
