<P> Kithclew was also a founding leader of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha (Indian Youth Congress), which rallied hundreds of thousands of students and young Indians to nationalist causes . He was also the member of the Foundation Committee of Jamia Millia Islamia, which met on 29 October 1920 and led to the foundation of Jamia Millia Islamia University . </P> <P> He started an Urdu daily "Tanzim" to uplift the Muslims and was instrumental in establishment of Swaraj Ashram in January 1921 at Amritsar to train young men for the national work and to promote Hindu - Muslim unity . Throughout the 1930 - 1934 struggles, Kitchlew was repeatedly arrested, and in all spent fourteen years behind bars . </P> <P> Dr. Kitchlew was opposed to the Muslim League's demand for Pakistan and later in the 1940s became President of the Punjab Congress Committee . In 1947 he strongly opposed the acceptance of the Partition of India by the Congress Party . He spoke out against it at public meetings all over the country, and at the All India Congress Committee session that ultimately voted for the resolution . He called it a blatant "surrender of nationalism for communalism". Some years after partition and Independence, he left the Congress . He began to come closer to the Communist Party of India . He was the founder president of the All - India Peace Council and also remained President of 4th Congress of All - India Peace Council, held at Madras in 1954, besides remaining Vice President of the World Peace Council . </P> <P> Dr. Kitchlew moved to Delhi after their house was burnt down during partition of India riots of 1947, thereafter he spent the rest of his years working for closer political and diplomatic relations with the USSR, and received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952, which was renamed for Lenin Peace Prize under De-Stalinization . In 1951, a Government Act made him, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, life trustees of the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Trust . </P>

Who characterised the partition of india as a surrender of nationalism in favour of communalism