23rd MARCH Pakistan Resolution - 23 March Special For Pakistan.
Pakistan Resolution
On March 23, 1940,
at the end of the three-day meeting of the All India Muslim League in Manto
Park, Lahore, a landmark resolution was adopted, on the basis of which the
Muslim League launched a movement for Muslims to have a separate homeland. And
after seven years he was able to get his demand cleared. In the first phase of
the process of handing over power to the people in the subcontinent in the
first general elections in 1936/1937, the Muslim League was severely shamed and
its claim was severely shaken. It is the only representative group of Muslims
in the subcontinent. Because of this, the morale of the leadership and workers
of the Muslim League was broken and they were astonished. The Congress had a
clear majority in Madras, UP, CP, Bihar and Orissa; it formed a joint
government with other parties in the border and in Bombay, and in Sindh and
Assam, where Muslims were dominant. Was successful. In Punjab, however, Sir
Fazal Hussain's Unionist party and Mawlawi Fazalul Haq's Praja Karshk Party won
in Bengal. So in any of the 11 provinces of India, the Muslim League could not
get power. In these circumstances it seemed that the Muslim League was becoming
alienated from the political mainstream of the subcontinent. In the meantime,
the Congress, which for the first time was very dedicated to the intoxication
of power, took steps that caused the fears and dangers in the hearts of
Muslims. For example, Congress declared Hindi as a national language, banned
cow slaughter, and made the tricolor of Congress a national flag. In this case,
with the deprivation of the power of the Muslim League, it led to the feeling
that the Muslim League had been deprived of power because it called itself a
representative party of the Muslims. That was the beginning of the awakening of
the feeling of the two separate nations led by the Muslim League. In the
meantime, the issue of full transfer of power to support the Second World War
broke out between the British Raj and the Congress and when the Congress was
separated from power, some doors were opened for the Muslim League. And it was
against this background that the three-day meeting of the All India Muslim
League began in Lahore on March 22. Four days before the meeting, in Lahore,
Khaksar party of Allama East broke a ban and paraded a military parade which
police fired to stop. About 35 khaksars were killed. Due to this incident there
was tremendous tension in Lahore and the unionist party of the Muslim League in
Punjab province was in power and there was a danger that Khaksar's shy party
workers would not allow the meeting of the Muslim League or on this occasion.
Please. In view of the nearness of the occasion, Prime Minister Muhammad Ali
Jinnah addressed the inaugural meeting in which he said for the first time that
the problem in India is not sectarian and international but it is an issue of
two nations. He said that the difference between Hindus and Muslims is so great
and obvious that under a central government, their union will be full of
dangers. He said that the only way is to have separate states. On the same day,
the same day, March 23, the then Chief Minister of Bengal, Maulvi Fazal-ul-Haq,
presented a resolution stating that no constitutional plan would be feasible
and the Muslims would not be accepted until one another. Geographical units
adjacent to it should not be enclosed in separate areas. The resolution said
that in areas where Muslims have a majority, such as the northwestern and
northeastern regions of India, they should unite and establish independent
states in which the units involved have sovereignty and sovereignty. The
resolution presented by Maulvi Fazlul Haq was supported by UP Muslim League
leader Chaudhry Khaliq Zazman, Maulana Zafar Ali Khan from Punjab, Sardar
Aurangzeb from Sindh and Abdullah Haroon from Sindh and Qazi Isa from
Balochistan. The resolution was approved at a closing meeting March 23. At the
meeting of the Muslim League in Madras in April 1941, the resolution Lahore was
incorporated into the constitution of the party and on this basis the movement
of Pakistan started. But at that time, no clear sign was given of the areas in
which separate Muslim states were being sought.Amendment of Resolution Lahore:
For the first time, areas
for the demand of Pakistan were marked at a three-day convention in Delhi on
April 7, 1946, attended by Muslim Legacy members of the Central and Provincial
Assemblies. The convention passed a resolution to present the demand of the
Muslim League to the delegation of the cabinet mission coming from the UK,
which was drafted by two members of the Muslim League's Muslim League, Chaudhry
Khaliq Zaman and Abu Hassan Asfahani. The resolution clearly identified areas
to be included in Pakistan. Bengal, Assam in the northeast and Punjab, NWFP,
Sindh and Balochistan in the northwest. Surprisingly, there was no mention of
Kashmir in this resolution even though there was a Muslim majority area in the
northwest and the province was linked to Punjab. It is important to note that
in the Delhi Convention resolution, the two states mentioned in the resolution
were eliminated altogether, which was very clear in the resolution of Lahore.
The creator of the draft resolution of Lahore:
Very few people are aware
that the original draft of the Resolution of Lahore was prepared by Sir
Sikandar Hayat Khan, the Unionist Chief Minister of Punjab at that time. The
Unionist Party was integrated into the Muslim League at that time and Sir
Alexander Hayat Khan was the President of the Punjab Muslim League. Sir
Alexander Hayat Khan had originally proposed the Confederation on the basis of
a central government in the subcontinent in the original draft of the
resolution, but when the draft was considered in the Subject Committee of the
Muslim League, the Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Jinnah himself. In this draft,
the mention of the only central government was completely cut off. Sir
Alexander Hayat Khan was very angry at this and stated clearly in the Punjab
Assembly on March 11, 1941 that his view of Pakistan was fundamentally
different from that of Jinnah Sahib. He said that he was against the partition
of India on the one hand and on the other on the basis of Muslim rule and on
the other hand he would fight against their destructive division, but that did
not happen. In the second year, 1942, at the age of 50, Mohammed Ali Jinnah was
rescued in the face of intense opposition. At the Delhi Convention of 1946, the
demand for Pakistan was presented by Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy and supported
by the Muslim League leader of UP, Chaudhry Khaliq Zaman. Maulvi Fazlul Haq,
who presented the resolution, did not attend the convention as he was expelled
from the Muslim League in 1941. At the Delhi Convention, Bengal's leader Abu
Hashim strongly opposed the resolution and argued that the resolution was quite
different from the Lahore resolution, which is part of the Muslim League's
constitution. He said that the resolution clearly demanded the establishment of
two states in Lahore, so the Delhi Convention had absolutely no authority to
amend this fundamental resolution of the Muslim League. According to Abu
Hashim, the Quaid-e-Azam made it clear at a convention and later in a meeting
in Bombay that since there was talk of setting up two separate Constituent
Assemblies in the subcontinent, a State of Delhi convention resolution Is
mentioned. However, when the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan drafts the
constitution, it will be the final arbiter of the issue and will have full
control over the decision to establish two separate states. But the Constituent
Assembly of Pakistan did not consider the establishment of two independent and
sovereign states of the Muslims in the subcontinent neither in the life of the
Quaid-e-Azam nor at the time when the country's first constitution was passed
in 1956. After the political upheaval and the conflict and the devastation of
the Bangladesh war in 1971, two separate Muslim states emerged in the
subcontinent whose demand for resolution is still preserved in Lahore.
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