Why did muslim league observe direct action day ? Plzz ans for 7marks question giving 3 reasons according to CAIE patern
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Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings, was a day of widespread communal rioting between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India.[3] The day also marked the start of what is known as The Week of the Long Knives.[5][6]
Explanation:
The Muslim League and the Indian National Congress were the two largest political parties in the Constituent Assembly of India in the 1940s.
The Muslim League had demanded, since its 1940 Lahore Resolution, that the Muslim-majority areas of India in the northwest and the east, should be constituted as 'independent states'.
The 1946 Cabinet Mission to India for planning of the transfer of power from the British Raj to the Indian leadership proposed a three-tier structure: a centre, groups of provinces, and provinces
The "groups of provinces" were meant to accommodate the Muslim League demand. Both the Muslim League and Congress in principle accepted the Cabinet Mission's plan. However, Muslim League suspected that Congress's acceptance was insincere.[7]
Consequently, in July 1946, it withdrew its agreement to the plan and announced a general strike (hartal) on 16 August, terming it as Direct Action Day, to assert its demand for a separate Muslim homeland.[8][9]
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In the elections to the Constituent Assembly that were held in july 1946, the congress won an overwhelming majority of seats. Alarmed by this, the muslim league decided to boycott the assembly and observed 16 august 1946 as DIRECT ACTION DAY. It condemned the congress and the British government and declared that Muslims should resort to direct action to achieve their goal of Pakistan.
Its result was that riots broke out in calcutta in which many hindus and Muslims were killed.