"If Congress regimes are going to suppress and persecute the Musalmans, it will be very difficult to control disturbances."
— Direct Action Day

January 1, 1970

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1946West Bengal1940s in IndiaReligion and violence
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M. A. Jinnah referring to the Calcutta disturbances later in August 1946. See Speeches, Statements & Messages of the Quaid-e-Azam: 1946-1948, p. 2407; The Life & Times of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee by Tataghata Roy; Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the creation of Pakistan by w:Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyay, p. 282