Former Union minister and senior BJP leader Kalraj Mishra today said that the portrait of Mohammed Ali Jinnah should be removed from the Aligarh Muslim University as the Pakistan founder symbolises Partition of India.
Jinnah symbolises division of India, as he incited people of undivided India, resulting a massacre that has taken life of thousands of people, Mishra told reporters in Vrindaban.
On Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar's comment that V D Savarkar was first proponent of two-nation theory, he said, "Aiyar should not be taken seriously because he had earlier made such statements.
When asked to comment on the AMU row's impact on Karnataka elections, he said, "Indian Muslims, in general, are patriot."
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