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Jinnah’s Fourteen points were rejected by Congress ultimately push Jinna to ask for Pakistan.

All India Muslim Leagueย on 9 March 1929ย  at Delhi

Jinnah’s Fourteen points WERE

1. The form of the future constitution should be federal with the residuaryย powers vested in the provinces.
2. A uniform measure of autonomy shall be granted to all provinces.
3. All legislatures in the country and other elected bodies shall be constitutedย on the definite principle of adequate and effective representation ofย minorities in every province without reducing the majority in any province toย a minority or even equality.
4. In the Central Legislative, Muslim representation shall not be less than onethird.
5. Representation of communal groups shall continue to be by means ofย separate electorate as at present, provided it shall be open to any communityย at any time to abandon its separate electorate in favour of a joint electorate.
6. Any territorial distribution that might at any time be necessary shall not inย any way affect the Muslim majority in the Punjab, Bengal and the Northย West Frontier Province.
7. Full religious liberty, i.e. liberty of belief, worship and observance,ย propaganda, association and education, shall be guaranteed to allย communities.
8. No bill or any resolution or any part thereof shall be passed in any legislatureย or any other elected body if three-fourth of the members of any communityย in that particular body oppose such a bill resolution or part thereof on theย ground that it would be injurious to the interests of that community or in theย alternative, such other method is devised as may be found feasible andย practicable to deal with such cases.
9. Sindh should be separated from the Bombay presidency.
10. Reforms should be introduced in the North West Frontier Province andย Baluchistan on the same footing as in the other provinces.
11. Provision should be made in the constitution giving Muslims an adequateย share, along with the other Indians, in all the services of the state and in localย self-governing bodies having due regard to the requirements of efficiency.
12. The constitution should embody adequate safeguards for the protection ofย Muslim culture and for the protection and promotion of Muslimย education, language, religion, personal laws and Muslim charitableย institution and for their due share in the grants-in-aid given by the state andย by local self-governing bodies.
13. No cabinet, either central or provincial, should be formed without thereย being a proportion of at least one-third Muslim ministers.
14. No change shall be made in the constitution by the Central Legislatureย except with the concurrence of the State’s contribution of the Indianย Federation.

Drafted by C Rajagopalachari