Minority’s Rule in the Punjab
March 31st, 2008 | by Raja Ghias |The Congress formed ministries in the eight provinces where it was in majority. Theses included two provinces claimed for Pakistan, namely, Assam, and the North-WEST Frontier Province. In the remaining three provinces, Bengal, Sind and the Punjab, the Muslim league single party in the Assembly. In Bengal and Sind the League took office; but in the Punjab, which was considered the heart of Pakistan, the Governor, with the vicious nod of the Viceroy, refused the majority party a right to from Cabinet; instead a Congress-controlled Cabinet with Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana as the puppet premier. In the Punajb the population of the Hindu people was 22% while that of the Muslims 57%. The League held 75 out 86 Muslim seats. Khizar was returned not from a Muslim seat but from the Landholder’s constituency. Yet the democratic Hindu minority of 22% was put in power to rule the 78% of the population of the Punjab, and the party, which had scored the greatest success at the elections, was kept of the office by “justice of the British diplomacy”.
