Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's son and MLA from Mumbai's Worli Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday responded on the students' protest at Mumbai's Gateway of India where a protester was holding a poster with 'free Kashmir' written on it. Speaking on the controversy, Aaditya Thackeray said there is a need to see her intent.
Interacting with media, Aaditya Thackeray further said, " Apart from that incident look at larger picture, yes we need to see her intent, was it (free Kashmir poster) to remove internet blockade, if it was freeing Kashmir from India then it's wrong. Obviously everyone condemned it, not even other protesters supported it."
On Monday, a controversial poster reading ‘Free Kashmir’ at a protest in Mumbai created a big row on Twitter. The poster was seen during the protest at the Gateway of India, organised to express solidarity with students and faculty members of Jawaharlal Nehru University who were brutally beaten on campus by masked men on Sunday.
After the girl carrying poster went viral on social media, Twitter users weren't impressed by the protestor holding the placard and soon 'Free Kashmir' started to trend in India.
Speaking on the controversy, the girl who waved the poster of 'Free Kashmir' released a video saying she is not from Kashmir but is from Maharashtra and is a writer. She also mentioned that she had no wrong intentions behind this act.
In the wake of violence inflicted on students and faculty by members of a masked mob, protests erupted in several campuses across the country, including at Jadavpur University, Aligarh Muslim University, Indian Institute of Management- Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) among others.
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