Hyderabad, Jan. 30 -- Right-wing workers defaced a mural of poet-philosopher Mohammed Iqbal, popularly also known as Allama Iqbal, in Jaipur. They accused the poet as the "architect of India's partition."

The right-wing workers threw black ink over the mural of the Islamic philosopher which was originally drawn as part of a beautification project.

His closeness to Muhammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first Prime Minister, brought in the Hindutva right wing's narrative of him being the conspirator of partition even though he had passed away close to a decade before the formation of India and Pakistan.

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