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Published 12 Jul, 2020 07:08am

From The Past Pages Of Dawn: 1945: Seventy-five years ago: “Puppet leaders”

SRINAGAR: Kashmir Muslim Students celebrated ‘Representation Day’ on July 8. A mammoth public meeting which attracted thousands of Muslim Students and public was held in Muslim Park with Prof. Naiyar in the chair. The resolution, reiterating complete faith in the Muslim League and its accredited leader [the] Qaid-e-Azam … was moved by … [the] General Secretary, Kashmir Muslim Students’ Union. Mr. Abdul Aziz supporting the motion declared that puppet Muslim leaders like Maulana Azad, who had sold their will into the hands of the Congress, could never on earth claim to represent the Muslims of India.

Mr. Aziz further asserted that Lord Wavell’s beating about the bush foreshadowed an unholy alliance between … British Imperialism and the Congress diehards, which, he said, could never enjoy a peaceful time long enough to slaughter the interests of a hundred million Mussalmans, as the Muslim League will have the honour to be the leading opposition party in the forthcoming sessions of the Central Assembly. The president elect … warned the Viceroy that Indian Muslims did not want Tomraj to be succeeded by Ramraj …

Published in Dawn, July 12th, 2020

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