<P> We are not in a position at this stage to measure the support which a scheme of this kind might succeed in securing from the other communities in India and from Britain . We recognize that the devotion to the principal of All - India unity may in the end prove too strong to permit wisdom and foresight to govern the situation . </P> <P> However, as opposed to this Note, Jinnah and majority of other Muslim Leaders, including both the Leaguers and Non-Leaguers, by that time had already reached to a common consensus of demanding separate sovereign states for Muslim majority areas in the subcontinent for reasons described by Jinnah in his essay of 9th March referred above . </P> <P> The session was held between 22 and 24 March 1940, at Iqbal Park, Lahore . The welcome address was made by Sir Shah Nawaz Khan of Mamdot, as the chairman of the local reception committee . The various draft texts for the final resolution / draft were deliberated over by the Special Working Committee of the All India Muslim League </P> <P> Later on, A.K. Fazlul Huq presented the resolution before the public and the AIML General Assembly . The resolution text unanimously accepted the concept of a united homeland for Muslims on the grounds of growing inter-communal violence and recommended the creation of an independent Muslim state . </P>

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