‘Explain rationale behind demand to remove portrait’

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An

Islamic organisation on Saturday questioned the rationale behind the demand of right-wing activists for removing a portrait of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).

“If someone has such a demand, they can move courts... Why such a row over it?” asked Jamaat-e-islami Hind president Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari. Describing it as a small issue that has been blown out of proportion, Umari said it has been a long time practice at AMU to display portraits of its lifetime members of the students’ union in the campus.