9th June, 1936
My dear Mr. Jinnah,
I am sending you my draft. Also a cutting from the Eastern Times of
yesterday. This is a letter from an Intelligent Pleader of Guradspur.
I hope the statement issued by the Board will fully argue the whole
scheme and will meet all the objection is so far advanced against it. It
must frankly state as present position of the Indian Muliins as regards
both the Government and the Hindus. It must warn the Muslims of India
that unless the present scheme is adopted the Muslims will lose all that
they have gained during the last 15 years and will seriously harm, and
in fact, shatter their own solidarity with their own hands.
Yours etc.,
(Sd.) Mohammad Iqbal
p.s. Will feel much obliged if you send the statement to me before it is sent to the press.
Another point which should be brought out in the statement is as follows:
1. Indirect election to the Central Assembly has made it absolutely
essential that Muslim representatives returned to the Provincial
Assemblies should be bound by an All-India Muslim policy and programme
so that they should return to the Central Assembly only those Muslims
who would be pledged to support the specific Muslim questions connected
with the Central subjects and arising out of their position as the
Second great nation of India. Those who are now for Provincial policies
and programme were themselves instrumental in getting in direct
elections for the Central Assembly introduced into the constitution
obviously because this suited a foreign Government. Now when the
community wants to make the best use of this misfortune (i.e indirect
elections) by proposing an all-India scheme of elections (e.g. League
scheme) to be adhered to by the Provincial candidates the same men,
again, at the instance of a foreign Government have come out to defeat
the community in their effort to retain its solidarity as a nation.
2. Question of Wakf Law arising out of Shahidganj, culture, language, mosque and personal law.
Private and Confidential,
Lahore
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