Jinnah: the true divider of masses

Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the name brings just one picture into our minds "Partition of India". Pakistan respects its Quaid-e-Azam and calls him Baba-e-Quoam affectionately, for them he is what Mahatma Gandhi is to India. However, there is one major and true difference between the two great leaders. Gandhi's strength came from uniting people and Jinnah's from dividing people.

Jinnah was just another member of Indian National Congress and did not have any specific identity other than being a barrister and affluent class. That was not enough to highlight him in the Congress a there were scores of people who fitted in the same bracket and had better achievements to show. My guess is, he must have felt that by remaining with Congress, there was very small chance of reaching the pinnacle of Indian politics. So he founded the Muslim League, for the first time in 60 years of freedom struggle did the caste come into equation. People were fed with misgivings that India under the Congress leadership would not take care of its muslim population and treat them as second rate citizens. A fear so deep rooted that it remains alive even to this day.

Fear is the best method for gathering followers and using this Jinnah did gather many followers, he made people beileve that cast was an important criteria of who you are and your standing in the society. The divide started growing and the ultimate chasm was created in 1946 when he called for "Direct Action Day". Indians killed each other for creation of "Pakistan"; a concept so wierd that even 62 years later no one is sure what it actually was. Jinnah said Pakistan is the secular umberella under which all religions could co-exist unlike the Hindu India (aka Hindustan). Today the record states, Islamic republic of Pakistan and the Social republic of India. In short, its high time people realise that the concept of Pakistan was just a means for one individual to achieve his narrow goals in politics and every argument done to that effect fell flat on its face, today as we see it.

Jinnah divided country then and he divides it even now, there are no two opinions about it. Maybe, he realised it a bit too late in his life that what he had done would have reprecussion in the century ahead but that does not absolve him of the "sin of partition". Let us stop glorifying him even to this age because everytime you do so, he wins again... guys, he is still dividing us.. wake up..

So long....