Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has alleged that Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar caused India's partition in 1947, while the ruling BJP is currently dividing the cities and neighbourhoods. He made the claim on Thursday in response to questions concerning media reports about the alleged exodus of Hindus from two Muslim-majority localities in Sagar city in the state. Jinnah (founder of Pakistan) and Savarkar divided the country, and now the BJP is dividing every city and every neighbourhood, the Rajya Sabha member told reporters in Indore. To a question about the BJP's Run for Unity' on Friday (October 31), marking the 150th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the Congress leader said, We welcome this event, but don't forget that October 31 is also a martyrdom day. He was referring to former prime minister Indira Gandhi, who was assassinated by her bodyguards on the morning of October 31, 1984. Singh also said that proofs of citizenship are

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Opposition leader in the Karnataka Legislative Council B.K. Hariprasad stirred a controversy by saying that the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Veer Savarkar were "same"

Raja further alleged that the BJP is trying to polarise the election in the name of Jinnah

Yogi Adityanath said the country has to decide if the sweetness of sugarcane will grow or the followers of Jinnah will cause mischief in the state, in a veiled attack on the Samajwadi Party (SP).

Book review of Jinnah His Successes, Failures and Role in History

The discussion of Kashmir in the book is, however, very brief and almost cryptic notwithstanding that Jinnah was at the helm of affairs in Pakistan for a significant part of the first Kashmir War

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"Quaid's (Jinnah's) vision about creation of Pakistan based on Two-Nation theory is an even more acknowledged reality today. We can't thank him enough for having got us Pakistan," Bajwa said.

It has shrunk the political space for Muslims in India

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