Abstract
For Jinnah and the Punjab Muslim League, the provincial elections of February 1946 marked a sweet moment of triumph. Whatever organizational problems the Punjab Muslim League faced, the elections of 1946 provided the League with a public mandate to speak in the name of Punjab’s Muslims. Even though denied an immediate role in the government by the formation of a Unionist-Congress-Akali coalition, the electoral success of the Muslim League in Punjab (and in Bengal) allowed Jinnah to proclaim his demand for Pakistan as an expression of popular will. With the triumph of the Muslim League in the 1946 elections, the demand for Pakistan as an expression of God’s will for the Muslim community, and as an expression of the popular will of a Muslim ‘nation’, were for the moment, fused.
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