Abul Kalam Azad envisioned a unified India but Jawaharlal Nehru was the first leader to drift away from it followed by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. And the gruesome partition of the Indian sub-continent became inevitable.
At exactly 9:30 PM, on February 17, 1946, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad heard the new British decision on the radio -- that the imperial power was going to decolonise the subcontinent. Under the Labour Party, the British government of Clement Attllee sent its Cabinet Mission to India on March 24, 1946. The main aim of this high-powered mission was deciding the transfer of power from the British to Indian leadership. The Mission consisted of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A.V.
“You get rid of Churchill and the Conservatives who want to hang on to power. Clement Attlee wants to decolonize, its economic, pragmatic and also an ethical commitment,” he adds. Whereas, Muhammad Ali Jinnah held the opposite view. He wanted to resolve the communal issues first. His two-nation theory of 1940 makes an argument for parity between Hindus and Muslims. For him, the nation is an empty category. A loose centre with a separate autonomous Muslim state is vital for him in achieving equal rights.One answer that Jinnah provides, is to have six states into a unified federated structure,” said Dr Shruti Kapila, an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge.
It divided the country into three zones: A, B and C. Section B would include Punjab, Sindh, NWFP, and British Balochistan. Section C included Bengal and Assam. According to the Mission Plan, Muslims of these majority provinces could exercise full autonomy.
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