In the given question, a statement of Assertion is followed by a statement of Reason. Mark the correct answer.
Assertion: Mohammad Ali Jinnah said, "You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan".
Reason: He envisioned Pakistan to be a secular state.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his Presidential Address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan at Karachi on 11 August 1947 said- "We should begin to work in that spirit and in course of time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities, the Hindu community and the Muslim community – because even as regards Muslims you have Pathans, Punjabis, Shias, Sunnis and so on and among the Hindus, you have Brahmins, Vaishnavas, Khatris, also Bengalees, Madrasis, and so on – will vanish. … You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State."