Maulana Azad, the father of Pakistan, is the killer of Gandhi, the creator of the Muslim problem in a divided India . —Engineer Shyam Sundar Poddar, MBA, former General Secretary, Jadavpur University Students’ Union.
In 1920, Muslim League leaders Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali demanded that India be partitioned between Hindus and Muslims, with Muslims getting North India and Hindus getting South India.
When Great Britain had control over Turkey, the British removed the Turkish Sultan from the position of Caliph of the Muslim world and placed Mecca and Medina under Arab control. Muslim leaders, including Muhammad Ali, Shaukat Ali, and Maulana Azad, started the Khilafat Movement, demanding the restoration of the Caliph’s title to Turkey. The British sent them to jail.
When Gandhi joined the Congress in 1920, these leaders approached him, suggesting that if the Khilafat Movement were conducted under the banner of the Congress, Hindus and Muslims would unite against the British. They also proposed inviting the King of Afghanistan to attack British India.
In this way, Hindu-Muslim unity created unrest among the British, along with the threat of an attack on British India by the Afghan army. The British could not sustain this situation, and India could have gained independence. Gandhi was so convinced of the effectiveness of this strategy that he openly declared that he would achieve India’s independence within a year.
The actual plan of the Muslim leaders, however, was to establish Muslim rule in India after driving out the British.
Following the failure of this movement, Maulana Azad, in his speech at a Muslim League conference in Kolkata, reportedly said that India would eventually consist of five Muslim states and nine Hindu states.
When Sindh was separated from the Bombay Presidency, he wrote in the newspaper Al-Hilal that it was a great day for Muslims because they could now claim Sindh as a Muslim state.
In the 1937 Assembly elections, the Muslim League was unsuccessful in several parts of India.
Muslim voters in many parts of India did not support the Muslim League. However, the League secured a significant number of seats in Bengal, although it could not form the government on its own. The Krishak Mazdoor Praja Party, led by A. K. Fazlul Huq, secured 40 seats, while the Congress, under the leadership of Subhas Chandra Bose, secured 60 seats.
Subhas Chandra Bose reached an understanding with Fazlul Huq that the Bengal Congress and the Krishak Mazdoor Praja Party would form a coalition government, keeping the communal Muslim League out of power in Bengal.
Subhas Chandra Bose met Gandhi at Wardha, accompanied by his brother, Sarat Chandra Bose. Gandhi reportedly approved Subhashq Chandra Bose’s proposal that the Bengal Congress should form a government with Fazlul Huq’s Krishakazdoor Praja Party. Later, however, Gandhi intervened, and Subhas Chandra Bose’s plan was abandoned.
Subhas Chandra Bose subsequently wrote a letter to Mahatma Gandhi expressing his disappointment. He reportedly stated that there was little value in managing the affairs of the Congress in Bengal if the opinions of G. D. Birla, Nil Ratan Sarkar, and Maulana Azad were given greater importance than those of the Bengal Congress leadership.
He reminded Gandhi that, in the presence of his brother, Sarat Chandra Bose, Gandhi had promised that the Bengal Congress would form a government with Fazlul Huq’s Krishak Mazdoor Praja Party. However, Gandhi had changed his position.
According to this account, Maulana Azad convinced Gandhi that implementing Subhash Chandra Bose’s plan would not be well received by the Muslim community in India.
As a result, Fazlul Huq had no option but to align himself with Jinnah, and a ministry led by Fazlul Huq was formed with the support of the Muslim League, while the Congress remained out of power in Bengal.
In this way, the Muslim League rose to prominence in India, allegedly with the help of Maulana Azad, who was working in its favour from within the Congress.
Realising Maulana Azad’s alleged role in the creation of Pakistan, Gandhi reportedly ordered him to step down from the ministry and hand over the position to new Muslim leaders.
Fearing that Gandhi might expose his alleged role and jeopardise his political future, Maulana Azad supposedly began planning Gandhi’s assassination. Godse reportedly stated that he had fired only two bullets and questioned where the other two bullets had come from. According to this allegation, the assassination was planned by Maulana Azad, which was also the reason Gandhi’s body was not subjected to a post-mortem examination. Had a post-mortem been conducted, the allegation claims, Azad would have been exposed.
Azad allegedly wanted to divide India and turn it into a Muslim state. Jinnah reportedly stated that if Hindus continued to be killed in Pakistan and fled the country, the very purpose of creating an Islamic Pakistan would be defeated. Therefore, an arrangement should be made for the peaceful exchange of Hindu and Muslim populations between the two countries.
At the time of Partition, Pakistan was entitled to receive ₹75 crore from the Reserve Bank of India. Of this amount, ₹20 crore had been paid, leaving ₹55 crore outstanding. On the advice of Maulana Azad, Nehru allegedly withheld the remaining ₹55 crore from Pakistan. Mahatma Gandhi subsequently undertook a hunger strike, compelling Nehru to release the money to Pakistan.
Before this, Gandhi had reportedly wanted to save the lives of millions of Hindus in Pakistan and bring them to India by accepting Jinnah’s proposal for an exchange of populations. Without paying the outstanding ₹55 crore to Pakistan, how could Gandhi have approached Jinnah to discuss the exchange of populations?
After the payment was released, Gandhi reportedly sent his private secretary, Sushila Nayar, to Pakistan. She met Jinnah and arranged an appointment for Gandhi on 4 February 1948.
According to this account, Azad was not interested in allowing this meeting to take place because it could have undermined his alleged plan to turn India into a Muslim state. An exchange of populations might have taken place, and Gandhi was assassinated before the proposed meeting could occur.
In his book India Wins Freedom, Maulana Azad wrote that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was responsible for the creation of Pakistan. According to Azad, if Nehru had accepted a coalition government involving the Muslim League in the United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh), Pakistan might never have been created.
When Muslim invaders destroyed Hindu temples and conquered parts of Hindustan, they allegedly imposed conditions requiring Hindus to live as second-class citizens, known as Jimmis. These conditions reportedly included prohibitions on rebuilding destroyed temples and requirements to provide accommodation to Muslims in their homes for three days. The account further alleges that crimes committed by such individuals would not be treated as offences.
Young Hindus in the Congress must free the Congress party from alleged Muslim League infiltrators.