Point 3 of Lahore resolution says 'independent states in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and soverign'
3. The adjacent territorial units should be demarcated into regions that may involve some territorial adjustments in a manner that the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a majority as in north-western and eastern zones of India become independent states in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign.
An interpretation of the Lahore Resolution - DAWN.COM
What happened to the 'states' and how did it become 'a state'??
1. Benglaee Muslims had pioneered the Pakistan /Two Nation movement for many reasons.
a. The Message of Islam had arrived at the shore of Bengal-Arakan during the lifetime of the Holy Prophet pbuh - which was much earlier than the western extremity of SA. Thereafter various teachers/sufi saints had settled down in this land to serve Islam and the Muslims. Whether revolting against Emperor Akbar against his coziness with the Hindu faith, or the revolt against the English Co 1857, or subsequent Faraizi movement, or Titumir's Jihad, or the sustained aid to the Pashtun struggle against the British including total acceptance of Shaheed Syed Ahmed's Jihad, or the Khilafat movement, the Bengalee Muslims never shirked in serving Islam. Having received the Message unadulterated and direct they nurtured it carefully over the centuries.
b. Bengalee Muslims had been rendered poor and mostly illiterate after the Permanent Settlement Act. The British rulers, the Hindu zamindars and the Hindu mahajons (banyas) exploited the Muslims with all the powers and resources remaining at their command.
c. Bengalee Muslims sought to retrieve their sovereign land of Bangla-Bihar-Orissa that they had lost to the treachery of Hindu Marwaris, Hindu clergy, the English cheats and the ambitious traitors in the Court.
2. The personality clash between Shere Bangla and Jinnah needs to be understood also. Just look at Shere Bangla's CV.
A. K. Fazlul Huq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. What an outstanding man he was! The personal differences between the two began during the Lahore Session of AIML when the Lahore Resolution 1940 was adopted. Earler Gandhi had called him a iger of Bengal when during a conference Huq had pounded the table so hard that it broke into pieces. He was a tall and powerful man physically known to devour enormous amount of food. Huq, then PM of India's largest province, had arrived late at the meeting when Jinnah was already in the midst of his chairman's address- and Jinnah spoke in English only. When Huq arrived he was received with full-throated cries of "Shere Bangla - Zindabad". This a spontaneous response by the Lahorites, and thereafter the title Shere Bangla stuck with his name. The audience now clamored for Jinnah to stop his speech and let Shere Bangla speak. It took Huq 8 mins to quieten the audience to hear Jinnah first. Then Jinnah made this famous comment, "When the Tiger enters, the lamb must give way." Huq was a very good orator in Urdu as in Bangla. He was also fluent in Arabic, Persian as in English.When Huq had joined the Viceroy's War Council, Jinnah asked him and other Muslim members to resign. Huq complied but also resigned from AML. Huq was motivated by factors in Bengal politics which non-Bengalee members of AIML high command did not appreciate. The contribution of Huq in freeing the Bengalee Muslims from the never-ending debt to the mahajon banyas and in spreading education among the Bengalee Muslims is service by leader unparalleled in the annuls of history when you consider the Brits were still the rulers.
3. The next AIML session was held at Delhi,1946 when H. Suhroawrady (HS) was the PM of Bengal. HS was another outstanding man coming from an elite family of scholars. At the behest of Jinnah it fell on him to move the resolution amending the original expunging the letter "s". There was much opposition to this from Bengal but HS complied with Jinnah's instruction.
4. The 1945-46 elections were held as the crucial referendum for the Pakistan project. HS,as the leader of BPML, single handedly won this election for AIML in Bengal. Jinnah had interfered with the parliamentary board in Sind and such he was not invited for election campaign in Bengal.Liaqat had visited Gafargaon, Mymensingh once but AIML had lost this seat miserably. The result was complete victory for ML in Bengal. The tally was 114 out of 119, the other 5 going to Huq's KPP. NWFP,Punjab and Sind had voted against Pakistan.
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Therefore, there would be no Pakistan without Bengal and without removal of the "s". This point somehow was not explained to the Bengalees adequately at that time. Furthermore and crucially, effort should have been made immediately after Partition to return to the Lahore Resolution. But soon after Jinnah's death Liaqat Ali Khan and the feudal-industrial interests as well as bureaucrats had entered into powerful positions in the state to convert the the Eastern wing into an object of exploitation. Perhaps Ayub had sincerely desired to reverse the process, but he had lost his time by then.
