May 3, 2018 8:37 pm (IST)

Talking to News18, university spokesperson Omar Pirzada said, “The university administration stands with the students in these testing times.”

PhD student Kulsum Salahuddin said, “We demand that AMU be projected as a historical and secular institution as it has always been in practice.”

Talking to News18, AMU student union president Makshoor Ahmad Usmani said, “Jinnah is a historical figure and his portrait has been there in the university since 1938 in the student union hall. The students have ideological difference and do no stand by the two nation theory of Jinnah but that doesn't mean that historical facts should be distorted.