AGRA: Aligarh Muslim University has pop out in defence of being labelled “pro-Jinnah” not too long ago amid row over presence of a portrait of the Pakistan founder on its campus. Its spokesperson said they never laid declare to one-third share of his property which he had left to the institution in 1939 because of his “divisive politics”.
According to officials, Mohammad Ali Jinnah had willed 1/3rd share of his immoveable property in Mumbai to the college in 1939 nevertheless it never claimed it. According to his “will” written in 1939, besides AMU, Islamia College, Peshawar, and Sindh Madrassa of Karachi also have share within the property.
“We have never claimed our share and haven't any intentions of doing it, as he was once never a role model for the college because of his two-nation concept and divisive policies,” AMU spokesperson Shafey Kidwai said.
The college was once stuck in a row over a Jinnah portrait in its scholars’ union corridor after BJP MP Satish Gautam wrote to AMU VC asking him to take away it. Though the debate has since died down, scholars have categorically said that the portrait will not be taken down till MHRD problems a round for its removing.
Jinnah House built in 1936 on a 2.five acre plot, stands reverse Maharashtra chief minister’s reputable residence, and is a secure heritage construction. It was once the location of a a very powerful meeting between Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah prior to Partition.
The palatial property has been a long-standing bone of rivalry between India and Pakistan, with the latter excited about setting up its consulate there.
The house was once additionally on the centre of a prolonged struggle between Jinnah’s daughter Dina Wadia who died in November last yr in New York on the age of 98 and the Union government.
Jinnah’s simplest kid, Wadia had moved court docket, claiming the property by means of distinctive feature of being his simplest legal inheritor. She had said in her plea that there was once no valid will to justify the Centre’s notification pointing out the heritage property as evacuee property. The Union government had hostile the petition, pronouncing that the house belonged to the federal government and that simplest Jinnah’s sister Fatima or her legal inheritor may just declare proper over it.
According to officials, Mohammad Ali Jinnah had willed 1/3rd share of his immoveable property in Mumbai to the college in 1939 nevertheless it never claimed it. According to his “will” written in 1939, besides AMU, Islamia College, Peshawar, and Sindh Madrassa of Karachi also have share within the property.
“We have never claimed our share and haven't any intentions of doing it, as he was once never a role model for the college because of his two-nation concept and divisive policies,” AMU spokesperson Shafey Kidwai said.
The college was once stuck in a row over a Jinnah portrait in its scholars’ union corridor after BJP MP Satish Gautam wrote to AMU VC asking him to take away it. Though the debate has since died down, scholars have categorically said that the portrait will not be taken down till MHRD problems a round for its removing.
Jinnah House built in 1936 on a 2.five acre plot, stands reverse Maharashtra chief minister’s reputable residence, and is a secure heritage construction. It was once the location of a a very powerful meeting between Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah prior to Partition.
The palatial property has been a long-standing bone of rivalry between India and Pakistan, with the latter excited about setting up its consulate there.
The house was once additionally on the centre of a prolonged struggle between Jinnah’s daughter Dina Wadia who died in November last yr in New York on the age of 98 and the Union government.
Jinnah’s simplest kid, Wadia had moved court docket, claiming the property by means of distinctive feature of being his simplest legal inheritor. She had said in her plea that there was once no valid will to justify the Centre’s notification pointing out the heritage property as evacuee property. The Union government had hostile the petition, pronouncing that the house belonged to the federal government and that simplest Jinnah’s sister Fatima or her legal inheritor may just declare proper over it.
We never claimed share in Jinnah property due to his ‘divisive politics’: AMU
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