AMU 'missing' Jinnah portrait row: Who is Muhammad Ali Jinnah? All you need to know about Pakistan founder
After a missing decades-old portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah from the students union hall at Aligarh Muslim University has triggered massive clashes in and out of the university. More than 50 people, including students and cops, were reportedly injured during the clashes between students and police at AMU campus. The Hindutva activists, the Hindu Yuva Vahini sena also attacked AMU students and violently demanded that a portrait of Mohammad Ali Jinnah- which has been hanging inside the students' union hall for 80 years – be taken down.
Jinnah's portrait was installed in the AMU students hall in 1938 as he was a founder member of the University Court and was granted life membership of the student union. The first life membership by the student union was the one granted to Mahatma Gandhi on October 29, 1920.The list was later followed by, luminaries including Rajagopalachari, Nehru, Sarojini Naidu, C. V. Raman and British writer E. M. Forster.
Meanwhile. the AMU authorities say the portrait was taken off for a cleaning purpose. Well, the missing 'portrait' has triggered nation-wide outrages and politico crisis. However, people might be thinking who is Jinnah?
Here's all about the Indian politician and a founder of independent Pakistan, Mohammad Ali Jinnah:
-Mohammad Ali Jinnah popularly known as Jinnah, born as Mohammedali Jinnahbhai in Karachi (now Pakistan) was a lawyer and an Indian Politician and founder of Pakistan.
- Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi belonged to Gujarat and similar communities. His mother tongue was Kutchi a form of Gujarati.
-Jinnah was the first leader of Pakistan as it's first Governor-General until his death and known as 'Quaid-I Azam' or 'Great Leader'. Jinnah completed his education from Bombay University and at Lincoln's Inn in London.
- Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a member of the Indian National Congress, working for autonomy from British rule. Jinnah also served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until Pakistan's independence on 14 August 1947.
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- In 1920, the Indian National Congress launched a movement of 'non-cooperation' to boycott British rule. Jinnah opposed this policy and quite from the Congress that caused differences between the Congress and the Muslim League.
- After the relation between Hindus and Muslims began to deteriorate, in 1940, the first demand was made for separation of India and Pakistan for the creation of independent Pakistan, a Muslim state at a Muslim League session in Lahore. Jinnah had faith that Hindu-Muslim unity was not impossible but later found that partition was necessary to safeguard the rights of Indian Muslims.
-On 14 August 1947, Pakistan was formed after it's separation from India that triggered a widespread violence between Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs, and a vast movement of populations between the new states of Pakistan and India in which hundreds of thousands died.
- In 1946 Jinnah's doctors gave him not more than 2 years to survive because of the Advance stage of TB of Lungs and he died of tuberculosis on 11 September 1948.
First published: 4 May 2018, 11:06 IST