In December 1940, Jinnah argued in favor of the Pakistan plan that just as it becomes impossible for two brothers to live together in a joint family, they can live peacefully after the partition of property, in the same way partition of India will also be beneficial. But when Gandhiji presented the same argument in AD 1944, Jinnah did not accept it because then the Muslims would have to live under a central system.
In September 1944, Gandhiji was not ready to accept India as a country of two nations. They could consider it as a joint family whose Muslim members, who were in majority in the North-West and North-Eastern parts, wanted to live separately. Gandhiji wanted to accept the Lahore proposal of the Muslim League on the following conditions –
(1) The will of the residents of the designated areas may be ascertained by any election or other method.
(2) If their answer is yes, then after India got independence, they should be organized into separate independent states.
(3) By a treaty, the subjects of external security, internal communication means, import-export etc. should be governed.
Thus, Gandhiji accepted the system that could have arisen as a result of the Lahore Resolution, but he did not accept the two-nation theory. Jinnah did not accept Gandhiji's offer. By this time a change had taken place in Jinnah's Lahore resolution.
He was now beginning to consider the North-Eastern and North-Western parts of Pakistan as two territories and was against making both the parts into two separate states. Jinnah was also against a central system after the above partition because he wanted to give the responsibility of such joint arrangements to separate constitutional assemblies of both the countries.
The Congress was fighting for the independence of India for more than fifty years. This demand of his was getting wide support not only all over India but also at the international level. The only meaning of this demand was that the British government should leave from here by handing over power to the Congress.
But with the Muslim League implicated in the demand for Pakistan, the then Viceroy Lord Linlithgow, in his famous resolution of August 1940, said - 'It is clear without saying that the British Government is taking its present responsibilities for the peace and welfare of India. cannot be handed over to a government whose dominance has been rejected by the vast and important elements in the national life of India.' This announcement of the Viceroy gave moral support to the Muslim League for its demand for Pakistan.
The demand for Pakistan was further strengthened in AD 1941
The demand for Pakistan was made even more vigorously in the Madras Annual Session of the Muslim League in AD 1941. This demand was also explained in detail by Jinnah in this session.
He said that- "All India Muslim League's goal is to establish a completely independent, separate nation in the North-West and Eastern regions of India in which Defence, Foreign Affairs, Communications, Customs, Currency We will have complete control over the exchange etc. We do not, under any circumstances, want a complete Indian Constitution with a single central government. We will never agree to this."