Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Framing the Constitution

Question:

"Not all Muslims supported the demand for separate electorates". Justify the statement from finding out the personality who did not agree?

Options:

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Begum Nur Jahan

Begum Aizaas Rasul

G.B. Pant

Correct Answer:

Begum Aizaas Rasul

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Begum Aizaas Rasul

Not all Muslims supported the demand for separate electorates. Begum Aizaas Rasul, for instance, felt that separate electorates were selfdestructive since they isolated the minorities from the majority. By 1949, most Muslim members of the Constituent Assembly were agreed that separate electorates were against the interests of the minorities. Instead Muslims needed to take an active part in the democratic process to ensure that they had a decisive voice in the political system.