{"id":78095,"date":"2020-10-17T00:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=78095"},"modified":"2020-10-17T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T09:30:52","slug":"aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah&#8217;s portrait at AMU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress party has fielded former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student leader Maskoor Usmani as a candidate for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. He will be contesting from Jale constituency in Darbhanga district of Bihar. Usmani&#8217;s candidature has given the BJP a fresh opportunity to criticise the Congress. The former has accused Usmani of being a &#8216;Jinnah supporter&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Aaj Tak ran broadcasts suggesting that the Congress will seek votes on the basis of &#8216;Jinnah&#8217;s genie&#8217; while issues of development and corruption will take a backseat. Anchor Rohit Sardana in his daily show &#8216;Dangal&#8217; invited several panellists to discuss Usmani&#8217;s candidature. The channel claimed multiple times (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cS3kmAD8DVg?t=84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1:24 minutes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cS3kmAD8DVg?t=385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6:20 minutes<\/a>) that in 2018 Usmani installed a portrait of Pakistan&#8217;s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah at AMU.<\/p>\n<p>The graphic plate below reads, &#8220;Maskoor Usmani had installed Jinnah&#8217;s portrait while he was AMU [students&#8217; union] president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-78097 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/8d66ca42-548a-4e2f-8f51-ea5e39c12fb0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"969\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/8d66ca42-548a-4e2f-8f51-ea5e39c12fb0.jpg 969w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/8d66ca42-548a-4e2f-8f51-ea5e39c12fb0-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/8d66ca42-548a-4e2f-8f51-ea5e39c12fb0-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 969px) 100vw, 969px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 6:20 minutes into the broadcast, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra expressed his grief over Congress&#8217;s decision to give Usmani a ticket \u2014 &#8220;It&#8217;s not important who wins or loses elections. Today, India is losing. The oldest national party because of which India was partitioned is again trying to gain votes by selling Jinnah. I am saddened, not happy.&#8221; \u2014 to which Sardana said, &#8220;Patra ji, you have peered into my heart. But look into your heart too and tell me if you&#8217;re not satisfied that they&#8217;ve given him a ticket and you can now highlight how he is a massive anti-national?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The complete broadcast can be watched below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cS3kmAD8DVg\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cS3kmAD8DVg<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Aaj Tak runs false claim<\/h4>\n<p>That Jinnah&#8217;s portrait has been hanging in AMU since 1938 is public knowledge. The issue raked up controversy in 2018 when armed activists from the Hindu Yuva Vahini descended on AMU campus with alleged police support to demand that the portrait be taken down. Scores of students were injured in the violence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For Jinnah portrait hanging since 1938, Hindutva activists attack AMU students <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sf132cXZN6\">https:\/\/t.co\/sf132cXZN6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Um6lIYhCI7\">pic.twitter.com\/Um6lIYhCI7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Wire (@thewire_in) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thewire_in\/status\/991882541337600000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visuals of police charging students with lathis and firing tear gas shells were also reported in the media.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Protests, Clashes In Aligarh University Over Muhammad Ali Jinnah Portrait\" width=\"1290\" height=\"968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mInZ_if5-qc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>AMU vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor had dismissed the row over Jinnah&#8217;s portrait on the campus as a non-issue. &#8220;Jinnah&#8217;s portrait has been here since 1938. Jinnah&#8217;s portrait is at many places, including Bombay High Court and Sabarmati Ashram. No one was worried about the portraits until now, I think it is a non-issue,\u201d he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/india\/jinnahs-portrait-in-amu-since-1938-it-is-a-non-issue-says-universitys-vc-1742879.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quoted<\/a> when asked if the portrait should be removed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-78106 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/989edca1-52a7-45c2-a92f-083eb20db0af.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"931\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/989edca1-52a7-45c2-a92f-083eb20db0af.png 931w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/989edca1-52a7-45c2-a92f-083eb20db0af-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/989edca1-52a7-45c2-a92f-083eb20db0af-768x421.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA country\u2019s history has dark as well as bright pages. No one in AMU supports Jinnah\u2019s two-nation theory, but we must accept that he is an important part of India\u2019s history,\u201d former AMU students&#8217; union president Masksoor Usmani had told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/india\/jinnah-dark-page-must-be-preserved\/cid\/1343907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Telegraph<\/a>. Usmani&#8217;s objection to the BJP&#8217;s demands to remove the portrait was preserving history.<\/p>\n<p>His video statement was broadcast by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynation.com\/news\/jinnah-portrait-stay-amu-asserts-student-union-president-pd3gb4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News Nation<\/a> on August 7, 2018 where Usmani said, &#8220;It is the students&#8217; union&#8217;s autonomy to decide what should be done to the painting. This isn&#8217;t new. Why does this question keep coming up? It&#8217;s because they want to make Jinnah an agenda in the 2019 elections&#8230;the portrait is just history which has been in the campus not since today but 80 years. We have said multiple times that Jinnah is our history, not religion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the Jinnah row, 94-year-old Riaz-Ur-Sherwani who was present when AMUSU unveiled Jinnah&#8217;s portrait in 1938 told the media that the matter was a &#8220;personal affair&#8221; of the students. &#8220;Sherwani is known to vehemently oppose Jinnah and his policies, however, he says that when the portrait was put up, the \u201ccircumstances of the country were different\u201d and no outsider can dictate what is to be hung in the university hall,&#8221; wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/1938-apos-94-old-amu-044413153.html?s=09&amp;guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News18<\/a> in a May 6, 2018 report.<\/p>\n<p>In an opinion piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/m.tribuneindia.com\/news\/archive\/comment\/why-jinnah-s-portrait-hangs-in-amu-583771?s=09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Tribune<\/a>, journalist Karan Thapar discussed that the decision to hang Jinnah&#8217;s portrait in AMU was based on his politics in the early 20th century. &#8220;The Jinnah of the first three decades of the 20th century was a very different person to the man the Pakistanis call Qaid-e-Azam,&#8221; Thapar wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Maskoor Usmani told Alt News that the narrative being peddled in the media, that he installed Jinnah&#8217;s portrait, is false propaganda. &#8220;I&#8217;d like to clearly and boldly state that I do not hold any views that support Jinnah in any aspect. The movement that had followed in AMU in 2018 had been on different issues and the corrupt ways of the media focussed to highlight a portrait hanging in the Union Hall to disrupt the movement and damage the name of the institution and mine as the leader of the students&#8217; union at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, let me state this with complete assurance that the portrait issue was a controversy to divert the attention of the populace. Secondly, that particular portrait hangs there not because I deemed it so. Jinnah&#8217;s portrait hangs along with the greatness of Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. At the time this issue had sprung up, I had addressed a letter to PM Modi and Rajnath Singh stating that neither the movement or I had no issue in removing the portrait in totality,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress gave Usmani a ticket instead of former Railway Minister Lalit Narayan Mishra&#8217;s grandson <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1317036228315811840?s=09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rishi Mishra<\/a> who said that he left JD(U) to contest from Jale. Mishra termed Usami\u00a0 &#8220;anti-national and Jinnah worshipper&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2020\/oct\/16\/ln-mishras-grandson-denied-congress-ticket-calls-party-candidate-masqoor-usmani-anti-national-ji-2211130.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claiming<\/a> that he has the Pakistan founder&#8217;s photo in his office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a shameful act by a person who wanted to acquire a ticket from Congress. Now when he has not gotten it, goes on to bash the Congress party&#8217;s name. All these statements being narrated are proof of how they fear the party moving up. I further suspect that people like him [Mishra] out of resentment for me and the party are spreading the propaganda to make me seem wrong in the eyes of the people and the party,&#8221; Usmani further said.<\/p>\n<p>Aaj Tak&#8217;s claim that Maskoor Usmani hung a portrait of Jinnah inside AMU campus is false. The portrait has been there since the pre-independence era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Congress party has fielded former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student leader Maskoor Usmani as a candidate for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. He will be contesting from Jale constituency in Darbhanga district of Bihar. Usmani&#8217;s candidature has given the BJP a fresh opportunity to criticise the Congress. The former has accused Usmani of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":78115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-78095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah&#039;s portrait at AMU - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah&#039;s portrait at AMU - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Congress party has fielded former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student leader Maskoor Usmani as a candidate for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. He will be contesting from Jale constituency in Darbhanga district of Bihar. Usmani&#8217;s candidature has given the BJP a fresh opportunity to criticise the Congress. The former has accused Usmani of being [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/altnews.in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-16T18:48:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-10-17T09:30:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Untitled-design-45.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"628\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Pooja Chaudhuri\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Pooja_Chaudhuri\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AltNews\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Pooja Chaudhuri\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Pooja Chaudhuri\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/679783e6af2a013b375fccf2865a44ba\"},\"headline\":\"Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah&#8217;s portrait at AMU\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-16T18:48:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-17T09:30:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1066,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/10\\\/2020\\\/10\\\/Untitled-design-45.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"featured\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/\",\"name\":\"Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah's portrait at AMU - Alt News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/10\\\/2020\\\/10\\\/Untitled-design-45.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-16T18:48:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-10-17T09:30:52+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/10\\\/2020\\\/10\\\/Untitled-design-45.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/10\\\/2020\\\/10\\\/Untitled-design-45.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":628},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Politics\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/topics\\\/politics\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah&#8217;s portrait at AMU\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/\",\"name\":\"Alt News\",\"description\":\"Alternative News and Views in the Post-Truth World\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Alt News\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/10\\\/2017\\\/02\\\/alt-logo-new-look.jpg?resize=2173%2C2172&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/10\\\/2017\\\/02\\\/alt-logo-new-look.jpg?resize=2173%2C2172&ssl=1\",\"width\":2173,\"height\":2172,\"caption\":\"Alt News\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/altnews.in\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/AltNews\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UCdDjoZAtt6PjQKAbr2FTOAQ\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/679783e6af2a013b375fccf2865a44ba\",\"name\":\"Pooja Chaudhuri\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/672aacab4ca3ecf6f86160f9863021c0db9e20fb201b4ced62e6365d78c83ce5?s=96&d=identicon&r=gfe4c6ac08b2625645fd1cc46d76abf98\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/672aacab4ca3ecf6f86160f9863021c0db9e20fb201b4ced62e6365d78c83ce5?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/672aacab4ca3ecf6f86160f9863021c0db9e20fb201b4ced62e6365d78c83ce5?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Pooja Chaudhuri\"},\"description\":\"Pooja Chaudhuri is a researcher and trainer at Bellingcat with a focus on human rights and conflict. She has a Master's in Data Journalism from Columbia University and previously worked at Alt News.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/Pooja_Chaudhuri\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.altnews.in\\\/english-clone-2026\\\/author\\\/pooja\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah's portrait at AMU - Alt News","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah's portrait at AMU - Alt News","og_description":"The Congress party has fielded former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student leader Maskoor Usmani as a candidate for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections. He will be contesting from Jale constituency in Darbhanga district of Bihar. Usmani&#8217;s candidature has given the BJP a fresh opportunity to criticise the Congress. The former has accused Usmani of being [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/","og_site_name":"Alt News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/altnews.in","article_published_time":"2020-10-16T18:48:25+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-10-17T09:30:52+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":628,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Untitled-design-45.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&ssl=1","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Pooja Chaudhuri","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Pooja_Chaudhuri","twitter_site":"@AltNews","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Pooja Chaudhuri","Estimated reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/"},"author":{"name":"Pooja Chaudhuri","@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/#\/schema\/person\/679783e6af2a013b375fccf2865a44ba"},"headline":"Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah&#8217;s portrait at AMU","datePublished":"2020-10-16T18:48:25+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-17T09:30:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/"},"wordCount":1066,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Untitled-design-45.jpg","keywords":["featured"],"articleSection":["Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/","url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/","name":"Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah's portrait at AMU - Alt News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Untitled-design-45.jpg","datePublished":"2020-10-16T18:48:25+00:00","dateModified":"2020-10-17T09:30:52+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Untitled-design-45.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Untitled-design-45.jpg","width":1200,"height":628},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/aaj-tak-falselt-claims-congress-candidate-maskoor-usmani-hung-jinnahs-portrait-at-amu\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Politics","item":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/topics\/politics\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Aaj Tak falsely claims Congress candidate Maskoor Usmani hung Jinnah&#8217;s portrait at AMU"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/","name":"Alt News","description":"Alternative News and Views in the Post-Truth World","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/#organization","name":"Alt News","url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/02\/alt-logo-new-look.jpg?resize=2173%2C2172&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2017\/02\/alt-logo-new-look.jpg?resize=2173%2C2172&ssl=1","width":2173,"height":2172,"caption":"Alt News"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/altnews.in","https:\/\/x.com\/AltNews","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCdDjoZAtt6PjQKAbr2FTOAQ"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/#\/schema\/person\/679783e6af2a013b375fccf2865a44ba","name":"Pooja Chaudhuri","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/672aacab4ca3ecf6f86160f9863021c0db9e20fb201b4ced62e6365d78c83ce5?s=96&d=identicon&r=gfe4c6ac08b2625645fd1cc46d76abf98","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/672aacab4ca3ecf6f86160f9863021c0db9e20fb201b4ced62e6365d78c83ce5?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/672aacab4ca3ecf6f86160f9863021c0db9e20fb201b4ced62e6365d78c83ce5?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Pooja Chaudhuri"},"description":"Pooja Chaudhuri is a researcher and trainer at Bellingcat with a focus on human rights and conflict. She has a Master's in Data Journalism from Columbia University and previously worked at Alt News.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/Pooja_Chaudhuri"],"url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/author\/pooja\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/10\/Untitled-design-45.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78095"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78145,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78095\/revisions\/78145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78095"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=78095"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=78095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}