Against all odds of what appeared as insurmountable obstacles, Mohammed Ali Jinnah carved a Nation for the Muslims of the subcontinent. He is possibly the only leader to have created a country through resolute negotiations against two hostile parties, the British government and the Indian National Congress. His task was formidable because he was pitted against giant politicians like Gandhi and Nehru, with the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten openly supporting them.

The transition was expected to be troublesome but no one anticipated the bloody carnage it would bring. The bloodshed followed the independence. This too happened because of Hindu zealots led by Vallabhai Patel, who refused to accept the partitioning of the subcontinent and the creation of an Islamic country.

The riots were bloody. Muslims were massacred. Gandhi, a possibly noble soul and Nehru, the politically correct and astute person, aligned with the oppressed Muslims. Gandhi went on a fast. Patel disliked Gandhi for his softness towards Muslims.

My father, in his personal copy, underlined in red while reading, (in year 1995) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s much publicized book, “India Wins Freedom”, the following lines: “Sardar Patel was not alone in this attitude towards Ganhiji’s fast… A section of Hindus under the leadership of the Mahasabha and the RSS went about openly saying that Gandhiji was helping Muslims against Hindus. They organised opposition even to his prayer meetings where under instructions of Gandhiji, verses from the Quran and the Bible were read along with Hindu scriptures.

After he came to Delhi in September 1947, they asked him to stop this practice. People were incited against Gandhiji by describing him as the enemy of the Hindus. One pamphlet went so far as to say that if Gandhiji did not change his ways, steps should be taken to murder him“. They did it.

Nathuram Godse, a worker of RSS, did it by pumping enough bullets into Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s frail body. I quote this for readers to know and correlate Patel’s actions with what Narendra Modi is doing in India today. The massacre of Muslims continues unabated. Narendra Modi is reincarnation of Vallabhai Patel. We however remain still thankless to Jinnah for getting us this freedom. We have ruined Jinnah’s Pakistan.

Jinnah in an interview to the then famous and........

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