Jinnah accepted sovereign united Bengal in 1947
WASHINGTON: Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah told Lord Mountbatten in April 1947 that he would be “delighted” if HS Suhrawardy’s proposal to create a separate, sovereign Bengal were accepted.
According to a new book by American historian Stanley Wolpert on the partition of India, when Mountbatten asked the Quaid what he thought of Suhrawardy’s proposal, fully expecting him to be shocked at his lieutenant’s “treachery”, the Quaid surprised him by replying, “I should be delighted. What is the use of Bengal without Calcutta; they had much better remain united and independent; I am sure they would be on friendly terms with us.” When Mountbatten added that Suhrawardy would wish Bengal to remain within the British Commonwealth, the Quaid replied, “Of course, just as I indicated to you that Pakistan would wish to remain within the Commonwealth.”
Wolpert writes, “Had Mountbatten followed the advice of Gandhi, Jinnah or Suhrawardy, instead of listening only to Nehuru, Punjab and Bengal might have been spared the deadly horrors, and a richly united Bengal, with its capital in Calcutta, would have emerged instead of the fragmented, impoverished Bangladesh born from its eastern half a quarter of a century later.” khalid hasan
So it’s finally clear that all the killings carried out by Hindu Extremists against the minorites was the deliberate work of Nehru?