DELHI: A mass meeting of the Muslim ladies of Delhi and New Delhi was held this evening [Dec 1] at the Central Office of the All-India Muslim League, Daryagunj under the Presidentship of Begum Sadaqat Ali Khan. Over 300 ladies were present. Sixty members of the Muslim Girls National Guards in their glittering green and white uniforms were looking after the arrangements.

Miss Fatima Jinnah was present on special invitation. Begum Sadaqat Ali Khan in her presidential remarks traced the history and explained activities of the Muslim Women’s League and said that all the Musalmans had now rallied around the Muslim League flag. This remarkable awakening, she observed, was due entirely to the untiring efforts of their leader, Qaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. She made a fervent appeal to the Muslim ladies of the capital to join the Muslim League and strengthen the only organisation of Muslim India. Miss Hamida Arif said that the All-India Women’s Conference was purely a Hindu body, which safeguarded the interests of Hindu women alone and the few Muslim women in that conference were not the real representatives of the Muslim women, nor had they any effective voice in the deliberations of that conference.

Published in Dawn, December 2nd, 2019