Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah

Quaid-e-Azam proceeds to the Viceregal Lodge Simla, 1946

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Quaid-e-Azam's brother Ahmed Ali with his wife Emmy

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Mr. Jinnah's encounter with Lord Minto

In 1910 Mr. Jinnah in the debate on the resolution on indentured labour for Natal said before the Viceroy of India Lord Minto:

“If I may say at the outset, it is a most painful question, a question which has raised the feeling of all classes in this country to the highest pitch of indignation and horror at the harsh and cruel treatment that is meted out to Indians in South Africa.”

Lord Minto interrupted and said: “I think that is rather too strong a word ‘cruelty’.

At this Mr. Jinnah retorted: “Well, my Lord, I should feel inclined to use much stronger language.”

Jinnah was applauded for his courageous stand, and the press displayed the incident in bold headlines.

Why Mr. Jinnah resigned from the Congress?

At the Nagpur Session of the Congress in 1920, Mr. Gandhi moved a resolution to change the original creed of steady constitutional reforms and national unity to the attainment of independence by all legitimate means” that was to discard constitutional means, and to bypass the need of national unity. Quaid-i-Azam resigned from the Congress and wrote to Gandhi:-

“Your methods have already caused split and division in almost every institution that you have approached hitherto, and in the public life of the country, not only amongst Hindus and Muslims but between Hindus and Hindus and Muslims and Muslims and even between fathers and sons; people generally are desperate all over the country and your extreme programme has for the moment struck the imagination mostly of the inexperienced youth and the ignorant and the illiterate. All this means complete disorganization and chaos.”
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