the going to barter away their future for the benefit of handful of careerists placed at a position of vantage by circumstances?
Partition of Bengal bears no analogy to the partition of India. The lamentable perversion in thinking which suggests that the movement for the partition of Bengal is convenient counterblast to Pakistan arises out of a colossal ignorance of the contents and implications of the Lahore Resolution to which and which alone and not this or that interpretation thereof, Muslims of India owe allegiance. That resolution never contemplated the creation of any 'Akhand' Muslim State or any artificial Muslim majority either by forcible importation of alien elements as is being done in Palestine or by any mass transference of population as was done between Turkey and Greece.
It rarely demanded complete sovereignty for those countries which are known to the world as Muslim majority countries and by implication demands complete sovereignty and self determination of all the nations and countries of India. It gives Bengal and other cultural units of India complete sovereignty while keeping open the possibility of creating an international (sic) purely on a voluntary basis for the benefit of all.
Pakistan never postulates that in Bengal or the Punjab Muslims shall be the ruling race and others reduced to the status of a subject nation. Quaid-e-Azam after the failure of Jinnah Gandhi talks at Bombay had declared in clear and unequivocal terms that free Pakistan states shall be governed and administered by the will and consent of the entire people on the basis of universal adult suffrage. I will like to add by system of joint electorate if the minorities do not demand separate electorate for their own protection.
In the absence of outstanding leadership the country is being rack rented by vulgar fortune hunters. Youths of Bengal, both Hindu and Muslim, must unite, liberate their country from the shackles of extraneous influence and make a bid for regaining Bengal's lost prestige and an honourable place in the future comity of nations, both of India and the world. Let the youths of Bengal build their character from their past traditions and derive inspirations for their present struggle from the glories of the future.
Hindus and Muslims of Bengal, preserving their respective entities, had by their joint efforts, in perfect harmony with the nature and climatic influence of their soil, developed a wonderful common culture and tradition which compare favorably with the contribution of any nation of the world in the evolution of man.
In the free state of Bengal, Hindus and Muslims as such shall have no right exclusively reserved for them except the right of Muslims to govern their society according to their own “shariat" and the right of the Hindus to govern their own society according to their “Sastras". These rights give the Muslims their spiritual need for Pakistan and the Hindus a real homeland for the free development of their own ideology and material realization of their particular outlook on life. It is unthinkable that in free Bengal, the Hindus of Bengal who constitute nearly half of its population will be denied their legitimate share in administration and in the enjoyment of her material resources. Hindu-Muslim population of Bengal is almost balanced. Neither community is in a position to dominate the other. If Bengal is permitted to harness all her resources for the
