Indian Express reports, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, is among around 200 individuals featured as eminent persons with roots in Gujarat, in an exhibition organized by RSS at the venue of their annual three-day meet to begin Friday.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is going to organize its annual “All India Representatives Meet” at Shree Nishkalanki Narayan Tirthdham Prernapith in Piraña village of Ahmedabad from 11th to 13th of March.
According to the Indian Express report, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, is among around 200 individuals featured as eminent persons with roots in Gujarat, in an exhibition organized by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at the venue of their annual three-day meet to begin Friday. Jinnah’s family belonged to Moti Paneli village in the Rajkot district of Saurashtra.
Among the others featured is the father of India’s space program Vikram Sarabhai, philanthropist Azim Premji, cricketer Vinoo Mankad, as well as Bollywood actor Parveen Babi, Haribhai Jariwala popularly known as Sanjeev Kumar, and Dimple Kapadia.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Bharatiya Janata Party president JP Nadda are among the top dignitaries attending the three-day closed-door events where 1,248 representatives of the Sangh from across the country will participate.
To explain the guest representatives with the culture and history of the state, RSS Gujarat Prant has organized an exhibition gallery depicting various art forms, handicraft and embroidery work, folk culture, performing arts, wildlife, and events of historical importance that took place in Gujarat.
At the exhibition, a giant billboard depicting pictures of 200 eminent personalities who have their roots in Gujarat has been put up that includes Mahatma Gandhi, UK-based MP Dadabhai Naoroji, business tycoons Dhirubhai Ambani, Ratan Tata and Azim Premji, social entrepreneur Verghese Kurien, Gujarat Vidyapith chancellor and founder of SEWA Ela Bhatt, telecom inventor Sam Pitroda and danseuse Mrinalini Sarabhai.
The photo frame of the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah has been placed between that of the freedom fighters Shamaldas Gandhi who formed the Arzi Hukumat against the Nawab of Junagadh and Sardarsinh Rana. The caption on his picture reads, “A barrister who was initially a staunch (chust) patriot, later the creator of India’s partition on basis of religion.”
In 2005, Mr. Lal Krishna Advani as deputy prime minister had also visited Jinnah’s mausoleum in Karachi and praised him as “a great man”.