With the start of communal riots in the Muslim minority areas during them midst of interwar period, the Hindu-Muslims relations were not that good. Therefore Mr. Jinnah invited the Muslim leader to his residence and suggested the proposal which all the Muslim leaders eventually endorsed, including the separation of Sindh from Bombay and its formation as an independent province, the introduction of reforms for Baluchistan and NWFP (Currently KPK) on unified basis with other provinces. Mr. Jinnah also demanded for at least 33 percent of the Muslim representation in the Central legislature and demanded for separate electorates. Earlier, Congress accepted the proposal after negotiating on the issue of separate electorates replacing it with the joint electorate. But later Congress rejected the proposal claiming it unbearable.
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Jinnah again put various demands in the annual meeting of All India Muslim League; these demands were about provincial autonomy, Muslims representation in Central Legislature, separation of Sindh from Bombay, religious and cultural liberty, Baluchistan and NWFP’s reforms, measures for the formation of central cabinet, separate electorates, rule for the resolution of bills in the legislature and many other demands. These demands are generally known as Mr. Jinnah’s fourteen points.
In December 1929, when Mr. Gandhi was all set to raise formal voice of independence at the Lahore session of Congress, the labor community came under British’s viciousness. Government had arrested thirty-one communists and had been charged in rebellion case, by calling strikes and because of other violence. All those thirty-one communists were trialed in courts and were sentenced. Later they had appealed for review, which got accepted for review but still they got punished to a reduced sentence. This trial or conspiracy is known as Meerut Conspiracy Case.
In 1930, at Allahabad, Dr. Allama Iqbal specified