Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Understanding Partition

Question:

The leader of the Muslim League who drafted the Pakistan Resolution was:

Options:

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan

Maulana Azad

Sikandar Hayat Khan

Muhammad Iqbal

Correct Answer:

Sikandar Hayat Khan

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Sikandar Hayat Khan

The leader of the Muslim League who drafted the Pakistan Resolution was Sikandar Hayat Khan.

The Pakistan demand was formalised gradually. On 23 March 1940, the League moved a resolution demanding a measure of autonomy for the Muslimmajority areas of the subcontinent. This ambiguous resolution never mentioned partition or Pakistan. In fact Sikandar Hayat Khan, Punjab Premier and leader of the Unionist Party, who had drafted the resolution, declared in a Punjab assembly speech on 1 March 1941 that he was opposed to a Pakistan that would mean “Muslim Raj here and Hindu Raj elsewhere ... If Pakistan means unalloyed Muslim Raj in the Punjab then I will have nothing to do with it.” He reiterated his plea for a loose (united), confederation with considerable autonomy for the confederating units.