Haryana Minister Abhimanyu said that AMU has a picture of the person “who broke the nation into pieces”, but does not have any portrait of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh, claiming that the Jat king had “donated” the land for the university. The controversy over a portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah refuses to die down as now a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) minister from Haryana has demanded that the name of the Aligarh Muslim University should be renamed after Raja Mahendra Pratap, also known as ‘Jat King.’
I demand that the AMU must be renamed as Raja Mahendra Pratap Vishwavidyalaya,” he said while addressing a gathering here on Sunday.
Earlier this month, a number of groups protested against the portrait of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah being hung at the AMU student union’s office.
Soon after, AMU Vice-Chancellor Professor Tariq Mansoor dubbed the Jinnah portrait controversy as a ‘non-issue’ and underscored that latter’s portrait is also present at the Bombay High Court and the Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat.
Meanwhile, the Aligarh Muslim University Students Union (AMUSU) has written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention into the controversy surrounding the portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
