"Full circle"

He has rightly described Gandhi, Jinnah and Nehru as remarkable men and his comments helped to remove many misgivings and cobwebs surrounding the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah worked with sincere conviction and honesty to free India from British colonial rule and to maintain a united India but, he was disillusioned by the Indian National Congress (INC) leaders' backpedaling on the promises, understanding and pacts. Then he called for a homeland for the Indian Muslims, for he feared the latter would be relegated into the background in a united and undivided India.

The INC however was not forthcoming. Instead, it ridiculed Jinnah's apprehension of Muslims getting submerged by a brute majority.

The INC brazenly pronounced that "Jinnah and the Muslim League were declining with bogeys and were unworthy of serious consideration and that Jinnah's political organisation was a mere nuisance."

Jinnah felt exceedingly indignant with the attitude of the Congress leaders who refused to accept his hold over the Muslim community and even a person of Nehru's stature and intellect absurdly remarked that "Ten Jinnahs cannot be equated with a single Congress Party political worker or activist" to which Jinnah in disgust described Nehru as the "Impetuous Pundit".

The INC failed to accommodate the legitimate aspirations and the genuine demands of the Muslims but claimed to be India's premier political organisation and the spokesman for all the communities inhabiting India.