Bhopal, October 09: After Jinnah, noted poet and philosopher Iqbal, who penned the famous song ‘Sare Jahan Se Achha’ has come on the radar of saffron brigade with a BJP MLA demanding scrapping of ‘Iqbal Samman’ on grounds that it was the poet who had first advocated for the two-nation theory.
“Iqbal had advocated the two-nation theory and it was he who had sown the seeds of division in the mind of Pakistan founder Qaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah,” BJP leader Girija Shankar Sharma told PTI.
Iqbal was also the ‘Spiritual Guru’ of Jinnah and he played a “more crucial role” in creating Pakistan than the latter, Sharma, representing Hoshangabad, alleged.
“I have also written a letter to the State Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the party leadership demanding that the award in the name of Iqbal be scrapped.
–PTI