The Dalit Leader Who Chose Pakistan, Became Law Minister, Then Returned To India: Jogendra Nath Mandal’s Story | India News
By marking the 79th Independence Day, the story of the distinguished Dalit leader Jgendra Nath Mandal, who preferred Pakistan through India during the division, offers a less known page from the history of the lower continent. He was disappointed with India’s social order, and initially withdrew from Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s promises, Mandal became Pakistan’s first law. However, religiosity made a rapid return, prevented their expectations, and eventually forced him back to India.
Dalit leader’s journey to Pakistan
Barisal was born in the family of a farmer from British India to the Namasudra community (a Dalit Group), Jgendra Nath Mandal exceeded the rate of graduation in 1934 with a degree of law. Rather than practicing law, his life struggled against injustice and for the sake of Dalits.
Mandal’s political life began with the barisal municipal elections, where he worked brutally to improve the lives of marginal people. During the 1937 state election, he defeated the President of the Congress Regional Committee and guaranteed his seat as an independent candidate.
Under the first influence of Subhas Chandra Bose, when Bose left the congress, the mandal was finally retreated to the Muslim League. Dr. He was very impressed by BR Ambedkar. Mandal was very important to enable Ambedkar to win the 1946 Constituent Assembly surveys from Bengal when he lost from Bombay. The mandal was a member of the founding parliament and played an important role in formulating the Indian constitution through its negotiations and suggestions to Ambedkar.
Affected by Jinnah, warned by Ambedkar
In the 1946 uprisings, Jgendra Nath Mandal passed through Doğu Bengal, advised Dalits to retaliate against Muslims and see both groups as a victim of pressure by Hindu upper castes. At that time he was on the side of the Muslim League and became a close partner of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Although he was not the first to choose the part of India, he was finally convinced that Dalits’ situation would never change in a majority country of a upper caste -caste hindu majority, and Pakistan could provide a better alternative.
In October 1946, Jinnah elected Mandal as one of the five representatives of the Muslim League in the temporary Indian government. When Mandal chose to emigrate to Pakistan after Jinnah’s assurances, peers and India’s leading Dalit leader Dr. He was warned by BR Ambedkar. However, the mandal affected by Jinnah chose Pakistan.
Pakistan’s first law and then disappointing
In the episode, Jougendra Nath Mandal passed to Pakistan and became a founding council member and temporary president. Jinnah gave him the responsibility to preside the first session of the Pakistan Founding Assembly. Dr. Ambedkar was turned into India’s first minister, while Jougendra Nath Nath became the Minister of Law of Pakistan and the Minister of Labor.
Nevertheless, Mandal’s dreams began to disintegrate shortly after Jinnah’s death in September 1948. He saw the worst type of discrimination given to the branches and swung to the nucleus due to increasing violence against Hindus in Pakistan. After Jinnah’s death, his political stock fell sharply. Although Pakistan’s first prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan made sincere appeals about the issues faced by Hindular and Dalits, his appeals were wasted.
Mandal had imagined that Pakistan was a country where the dalite freedom could bloom, but open discrimination against Hindu minorities crushed all his dreams. Religious excession supporters began to crush the Hindus and felt even more lonely in mandal Pakistani politics.
Painful return to India
It is an event chain after the death of Jinnah’s disappointed latch, who thinks that there is no one left in the government. He witnessed the emergence of people who leaned to put religion in the state. In Pakistan, things became so difficult for the latch that he had to flee.
In 1950, Pakistan put into effect the controversial ‘targets solution’, which was opposed by almost all the Muslim members of the founding assembly (except Miian Iftikhardin), but opposed by almost all minorities. Even one of the minority members would have said: If Jinnah was alive, this decision would never have passed. “The mandal remained in the cabinet of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan until 1950, and even grunted about the atrocities committed to Dalits in Eastern Pakistan.
Jougendra Nath finally resigned on October 8, 1950. In his resignation letter, he showed deep despair about the future of minorities and listed the reasons for his loss of faith. In Bengal, he talked about hundreds of Dalit murders by the police and Muslim league activists, which deeply hurt him and completely broke his devotion to Pakistan.
After resigning from the Pakistani government, the re -introduction of Mandal into India, or more precisely the Western Bengal caused a political turmoil. In 1950, he emigrated to India. Ironically, in India, Pakistan suspected its kind of history. Although India’s leading Dalit leader Dr. Although Ambedkar was a close confidant, Mandal had no political support.
He spent his later years in a very retrospective part of Kalcutta until his death in 1968. In 1952 and 1957, the mandal lost both time in the northern Calcutta, but both time was lost, but he tried to revive his political life by repairing the congress connections. In 1968, he died of a heart attack as a boat crossed a river. The cause of his death is still uncertain because it is not done after death.
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