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A new government has been formed in Pakistan. Shehbaz Sharif took oath as the new Prime Minister on Monday. Shahbaz Sharif has been elected Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time.
With the formation of the new government, neighboring country Pakistan has also started trying to improve relations with India. It is being told that Pakistan is going to celebrate its ‘National Day’ this year in New Delhi. On this day, programs will be organized at the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi.
This is the first time in four years that Pakistan will celebrate its National Day in Delhi. After the removal of Section 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan had recalled its ambassador.
Pakistan’s National Day falls on 23 March. This is the same date when the proposal to create Pakistan was made in Lahore before independence.
What happened on 23 March?
The date of March 23 is very important in the history of Pakistan. This is the same date when in 1940 the Muslim League had put forward a proposal demanding a separate country for Muslims.
In 1940, a session of Muslim League was held in Lahore from 22 to 24 March. In this session, a proposal was made to create a completely autonomous and sovereign Muslim country. There was no mention of Pakistan in this proposal. But later when Pakistan was formed, it also came to be called ‘Pakistan Proposal’.
There was no mention of a separate country or Pakistan anywhere in this proposal. In this, autonomy was demanded for Muslim dominated areas.
It was written, ‘Geographically contiguous units should be marked as regions, in which the areas should be re-adjusted as per the need such that the parts of India like the North-West and Eastern regions where Muslims are concentrated. The number is large, they should be collected and made an ‘independent state’. The units included in these will be independent and autonomous.
Not only this, the Constitution of Pakistan also came into force on 23 March 1956. On this day Pakistan declared itself an Islamic country.
What did Jinnah say?
Jaswant Singh writes in his book ‘Jinnah: In the Mirror of Partition of India’ that Mohammad Ali Jinnah had said in the Lahore session that there were such wide and sharp differences between Hindus and Muslims that their living together under a central government would pose serious dangers. Can do.
According to the book, Jinnah says, ‘Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religions, philosophies, social customs and literatures. Neither do they marry each other nor do they eat or drink with each other. Both of them belong to different civilizations which are based on conflicting ideas and beliefs.
Jinnah had said, ‘Hindu and Muslim epics are different, the heroes are different. Often the hero of one is the enemy of the other and the same is the case with their victories and defeats. To yoke such two nations, one as minority and the other as majority, into a single state would lead to discontent and the artificial structure created for the government of such a state would ultimately be destructive. .’
What happened to the proposal?
Jaswant Singh has also written in detail about the Lahore Proposal in his book. He writes that it was clearly written in this proposal that Muslims will not implement or accept any constitutional scheme until the geographically connected parts are divided into regions.
In this proposal, it was recommended to create a Muslim country which would include Punjab in the northwest, North-West Frontier Province, Sindh, Balochistan and Bengal and Assam in the northeast.
This proposal was passed on 24 March 1940. In 1941 it was made a part of the constitution of the Muslim League. On the basis of this proposal, in 1946, the Muslim League had decided to demand one country for Muslims instead of two.
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