Mumbai Party Unit Bharatiya Janata has urged the Minister of Home Union Amit Shah to change the historic ‘Jinnah’ house in Mumbai to become the center of Arts & Culture of South Asia (SACAC), a BJP leader told Wednesday.
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Lodha called Shah in New Delhi and filed a memorandum on request as part of a central plan to auction 9,280 Evakuee property belonging to people who chose to settle in Pakistan after the partition in 1947.
“I met him for the conversion of Jinnah’s house to be SACAC, like which was decided in 2017, and there was a board filed there on this effect, “Lodha said.
The center has submitted Jinnah’s house to the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICC) a few years ago.
Historic Jinnah’s house, located in Malabar Hill, was once Mumbai’s house from the Barrister-cum-Politician Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who founded Pakistan, became the first and respected governor of the ‘quaid-e-azam’ by neighbors.
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After Jinnah left India, according to historical records, he wanted his old house to be employed for a small European family or for an Indian prince which was enhanced by rent expected by Rs 3,000 per month.
He had expressed his desire to the Governor of the Province of Bombay then Sri Prakasa, who was estimed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who tried to know what was nullifeated by the former Pakistani leader with the former property after the partition.
However, post-independence, Jinnah’s house, along with thousands of other people in this country, was labeled as ‘Evakuee property’, and was leased to Deputy High Commissioner of England between 1955-1982.
Since then, Jinnah’s house is lying empty and waits for new residents over the past four decades.
By chance, when Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf visited India for the Agra Summit in 2001, he had proposed to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to hand him over to be used as a Pakistani consulate in Mumbai, but no one moved in this direction.
Lodha has pursued this problem with the central for years for the final decision about Jinnah House, built in 1936 with a 2.50 hectare main piece, while the former Jinnah house in New Delhi’s APJ Abdul Kalam Road has been rented to foreigners embassy.
Jinnah’s house is associated with several important events in the history of Indian independence.
It was a place for critical talks about Indian partitions in September 1944 between Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah, and in August 1946, Jinnah held a round of talk here with Nehru.