Why Mr Jinnah stressed the need for separate electorates for the Muslims of the subcontinent?
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Mohammed Ali Jinnah believed that only Muslims could protect the interest of Muslims and hence wanted separate electorates for Muslims, in Muslim dominated areas.
In separate electorates, the Muslims could select Muslim representatives, by which they hoped to get a fair representation in state and government affairs, as opposed to joint electorates in which, people voted collectively.
Jinnah, along with a few other prominent leaders, promoted the All India Muslim League in 1906, to promote Muslim interests.
Muhannad Ali Jinnah was a lawyer, politician, and the founder of Pakistan.
In 1940, Jinnah found to believe that Muslims citizens of the Indian subcontinent should have their separate state.
Musilm League was led by him on same year itself and they passed the Lahore Resolution, with a demand of a separate nation.
During the WW II, League gained strength while leaders of the Congress were in prison.
Elections held shortly after the war, Muslim league won most of the seats reserved for Muslims as desired by Jinnah.
Ultimately, the Muslim League and Congress couldn’t attain a sharing of power with the formula for the subcontinent to get combined to a single state.
This lead all parties to agree to the independence of a Hindu India, and for a Muslim-dominated state of Pakistan.