New Delhi: Students of another Muslim university have come out in support of Aligarh Muslim University when a group of JamiaMilliaIslamia students allegedly raised ‘provocative’ slogansregarding Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah in the campus on Tuesday. This has lead to a ruckus at the campus gates. The incident followed the row at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in Uttar Pradesh over the presence of a portrait of Jinnahin their campus.

Around 25 people marched to protest the “discrimination against Hindu students”, and the “presence of Jinnah lovers” in the campus. The protesters reached the Jamia campus around 5.30 pm, when semester exams and entrance tests were still underway.

“They were raising slogans like ‘Jinnah premideshchhoro’ (Jinnah lovers leave the country), and ‘Hinduonkaapmaannahisahega Hindustan’ (Hindustan won’t tolerate insult against Hindus),” said Mohammad Tasleem, a student TOI spoke to. “Some of the students got angry at the allegations that the people at Jamia disrespect the Hindu students. This led to an argument and a scuffle took place.”

Some students alleged that all the protesters were from Jamia. “Most of them were outsiders. Exams are going on in the university, and their motive was to disrupt the ambience,” said Laraib Ahmed, a second year masters student.

Hundreds of students then later assembled at Gate number 7 of the campus, raising slogans against the ‘outsiders’ who came to the campus. “Any Jamia student who was part of the protest, intending to malign the secular name of Jamia, they should be banned from the campus,” Tasleem said.