Here Is Why Subhas Chandra Bose Wanted Jinnah To Be First PM Of India

Subhas Chandra Bose wanted Jinnah to be the first PM of independent India if he gave up the demand for Pakistan.

Here Is Why Subhas Chandra Bose Wanted Jinnah To Be First PM Of India

Jinnah had to surmount stiff opposition from the Indian National Congress (hereafter referred to also as the Congress Party, the Congress or the INC), which was then the biggest political party in India, a grass-roots mass organization since the 1920s, with branches all over undivided India and long years of political organization and activity. It demanded freedom from British rule in the name of all Indians in a united India. In opposition to it, the All-India Muslim League (hereafter referred to also as the Muslim League, the League or the AIML) demanded separate states for the Muslims in the northwestern and north-eastern zones of India, where they constituted a majority, on the grounds that they were a distinct and separate nat...