Pakistan
Resolution of the Lahore Session of the All India
Muslim League
February 22-March 4, 1940
Legal Document No
68
While approving and endorsing the action taken by
the Council and the Working Committee of the All-India
Muslim League, as indicated in their resolution dated
the27th of August, 17th and 18th September and 22nd of
October 1939, and 3rd of February 1940 on the
constitutional issue, this Session of the All-India
Muslim League emphatically reiterates that the scheme
of federation embodied in the Government of India Act,
1935, is totally unsuited to, and unworkable in the
peculiar conditions of this country and is altogether
unacceptable to Muslim India.
It further records its emphatic view that while the
declaration dated the 18th of October 1939 made by the
Viceroy on behalf of His Majesty's Government is
reassuring in so far as it declares that the policy
and plan on which the Government of India Act, 1939 is
based will be reconsidered in consultation with the
various parties, interests and communities in India,
Muslim India will not be satisfied unless the whole
constitutional plan is reconsidered de nova and that
no revised plan would be acceptable to the Muslims
unless it is framed with their approval and consent.
Resolved that it is the considered view of this
Session of the All-India Muslim League that no
constitutional plan would be workable in this country
or acceptable to the Muslims unless it is designed on
the following basis principles, viz. that
geographically contiguous units are demarcated into
regions which should be constituted with such
territorial readjustments as may be necessary, that
the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a
majority as in the North-Western and Eastern and zones
of India should be grouped to constitute 'Independent
State' in which the constituent units shall be
autonomous and sovereign.
The adequate, effective and mandatory safeguards
should be specifically provided in the Constitution
for Minorities in these units and in the regions for
the protection of their religious, cultural, economic,
political, administrative and other rights and
interests in consultation with them and in mother
parts of India where the Mussalmans are in a minority
adequate, effective and mandatory safeguards shall be
specifically provided in the Constitution for them and
other Minorities for the protection of their
religious, cultural, economics political,
administrative and other rights and interests in
consultation with them.
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