Thread by @Inquilabo

Jinnah argued that we would be able to become a nation only if we could make the minority community feel secure.

The most important points on which there was contention between Congress and Muslim League were about Muslim representation, electorates and Centre-province relations

These were the issues around which most Muslim parties were seeking assurance from the Congress for more than two decades.

Most Muslim parties demanded a guarantee for Muslim representation in legislature, services and military. A share in administration was sought to be fixed

so that they are not left behind because of discrimination, which was a real danger in the context of repeated anti-Muslim mob violence.

More importantly, Jinnah as the ML president, demanded that Congress agree to fix the Muslim share in military constitutionally, as he

believed that “political rights emanate from political might”. If the two communities do not learn to ‘respect and fear each other’, then no agreement is worth more than just a piece of paper.

The third important issue was of the relative importance given to the Centre in future India. Muslim-majority provinces argued for more provincial powers, while Congress argued for a strong centralised state in Delhi. The issue of veto is linked to this Centre-province issue.

Congress twisted the meaning of ‘communal’ and made it into a contemptuous term. Similarly, it misappropriated and abused the term secularism and gave it a new meaning, making it a tool to deny any constitutional powers and rights to the Muslims

suffering of IM is not Jinnah’s doing. Muslims have been killed in India by Rwing, as well as the oppressive state, who denied them rep in every field from the very start. it is Congress and their successors like BJP who are the oppressors

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