Jinnah Bashing Back With CAA But What Were His Views on Partition?

Mohd Ali Jinnah, till the time of his death, even wanted to return to India after his purpose was solved in Pakistan

• Why does Jinnah’s name continue to be invoked, as a villain, in post-Independence India, especially in Modi-ruled India?
• Supporters of CAA-NRC, most of whom belong to BJP and the Sangh Parivar, are using Jinnah’s name to blame him, along with the Congress party, for ‘collusively’ partitioning India on the basis of religion.
• Both Indian critics and Pakistani admirers of Jinnah would be surprised to know that, although he did advocate the ‘Two-Nation theory’, Jinnah was also once a believer in the ‘Two-Nations-Together theory’.
• Even after establishing Pakistan on the basis of the ‘Two-Nation’ theory, Jinnah himself discarded it.
• What public opinion in both countries disregards, out of ignorance and prejudice, is that Jinnah tried his utmost to prevent India’s partition.
• Remarkably, all through the Partition debate, he always used the word ‘Hindustan’ to refer to what was not Pakistan, and ‘India’ to refer to what he often described as the ‘motherland’ of both.
• MN Roy, a communist leader who later became a proponent of Radical Humanism, was a contemporary of Jinnah. His assessment of Jinnah remains truthful: “Mohammed Ali Jinnah was the most maligned and misunderstood man.
  
• Fun Fact: It is to his Hindu friend Ramakrishna Dalmia that Jinnah sold his palatial house in New Delhi, located at 10 Aurangzeb Road, just before leaving for Pakistan.