<p>Lucknow: Saffron activists on Friday reportedly blackened the mural of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb on the wall at one of the platforms of Ghaziabad railway station in full public view.</p><p>According to the reports, around a dozen activists, carrying sticks, brush and paints reached the station around noon and blackened the mural at platform number four of Ghaziabad railway station.</p><p>Some reports, however, claimed that the mural was that of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and not of Aurangzeb. Zafar is considered to have played a role in the first war of independence in 1857. Zafar was exiled by the British to Rangoon (now Yangkon) in Burma (Myanmar) a year later where he died.</p><p>They also raised slogans against the Muslim invaders and said they would not tolerate paintings of such people at railway stations or at any other place in the country.</p>.Akbar Road signboard defaced in Delhi; probe launched.<p>‘’It’s a shame that the picture of a man, who plundered the country and demolished Hindu temples, is on the wall at a railway station....we will never allow that,’’ said Vipin Rajput, who claimed to be a worker of Hindu Raksha Dal, a saffron outfit.</p><p>Reports said that the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the GRP jawans did not make any attempt to stop the saffron activists from defacing the mural.</p><p>According to the sources, a case was registered against unidentified people in this regard and efforts were on to identify them.</p>
<p>Lucknow: Saffron activists on Friday reportedly blackened the mural of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb on the wall at one of the platforms of Ghaziabad railway station in full public view.</p><p>According to the reports, around a dozen activists, carrying sticks, brush and paints reached the station around noon and blackened the mural at platform number four of Ghaziabad railway station.</p><p>Some reports, however, claimed that the mural was that of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and not of Aurangzeb. Zafar is considered to have played a role in the first war of independence in 1857. Zafar was exiled by the British to Rangoon (now Yangkon) in Burma (Myanmar) a year later where he died.</p><p>They also raised slogans against the Muslim invaders and said they would not tolerate paintings of such people at railway stations or at any other place in the country.</p>.Akbar Road signboard defaced in Delhi; probe launched.<p>‘’It’s a shame that the picture of a man, who plundered the country and demolished Hindu temples, is on the wall at a railway station....we will never allow that,’’ said Vipin Rajput, who claimed to be a worker of Hindu Raksha Dal, a saffron outfit.</p><p>Reports said that the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and the GRP jawans did not make any attempt to stop the saffron activists from defacing the mural.</p><p>According to the sources, a case was registered against unidentified people in this regard and efforts were on to identify them.</p>