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@RahulEaswar's eulogy on the founder president of IUML's supposed "positive" role in Constituent Assembly reminds me of Muhammad Ismail's speech, 25th May, 49 on Sardar's bill: "Sir, I assert and say definitely that the Muslim, as a community, are not for giving up reservation."
"Not only that, they implore this House to retain separate electorates which alone will give them the right sort of representation in the legislatures. The Muslim League, which still is the representative organisation of the Muslim community, has more than once within this year"
"not only expressed a definite view in favour of reservation of seats, but has also urged the retention of separate electorates. That is the position so far as the Muslim minority is concerned...doing away with separate electorate means ignoring all the differences that exist"
"between one group of people and another? Surely, Sir, ignoring them and trying to forget the differences is not the way to deal with them. It will create and breed a feeling of grievance, discontent and dissatisfaction amongst the people..."
his full speech to illustrate the method and polemics: 
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