32 Facts About Jinnahbhai Poonja

Jinnahbhai Poonja is revered in Pakistan as the Quaid-e-Azam and Baba-e-Qaum.

Jinnahbhai Poonja's birthday is observed as a national holiday in Pakistan.

Jinnahbhai Poonja was of a Gujarati Khoja Nizari Isma'ili Shi'a Muslim background, though Jinnah later followed the Twelver Shi'a teachings and was considered an ethnic Muhajir because of his Indian background.

Jinnahbhai Poonja's father was a merchant and was born to a family of textile weavers in the village of Paneli in the princely state of Gondal ; his mother was of that village.

Jinnahbhai Poonja gained his matriculation from Bombay University at the high school.

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In 1892, Sir Frederick Leigh Croft, a business associate of Jinnahbhai Poonja, offered young Jinnah a London apprenticeship with his firm, Graham's Shipping and Trading Company.

Jinnahbhai Poonja accepted the position despite the opposition of his mother, who before he left, had him enter an arranged marriage with his cousin, two years his junior from the ancestral village of Paneli, Emibai Jinnah.

Jinnahbhai Poonja became an admirer of the Parsi British Indian political leaders Dadabhai Naoroji and Sir Pherozeshah Mehta.

Jinnahbhai Poonja came to own over 200 suits, which he wore with heavily starched shirts with detachable collars, and as a barrister took pride in never wearing the same silk tie twice.

Jinnahbhai Poonja was elected President of All India Postal Staff Union in 1925 whose membership was 70,000.

Jinnahbhai Poonja played an important role in enactment of Trade Union act of 1926 which gave trade union movement legal cover to organise themselves.

Jinnahbhai Poonja was a member of the moderate group in the Congress, favouring Hindu–Muslim unity in achieving self-government, and following such leaders as Mehta, Naoroji, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

Jinnahbhai Poonja said that our principle of separate electorates was dividing the nation against itself.

Jinnahbhai Poonja was a compromise candidate when two older, better-known Muslims who were seeking the post deadlocked.

Jinnahbhai Poonja joined the following year, although he remained a member of the Congress as well and stressed that League membership took second priority to the "greater national cause" of an independent India.

Jinnahbhai Poonja was the fashionable young daughter of his friend Sir Dinshaw Petit, and was part of an elite Parsi family of Bombay.

Jinnahbhai Poonja opposed Gandhi, but the tide of Indian opinion was against him.

Jinnahbhai Poonja showed much skill as a parliamentarian, organising many Indian members to work with the Swaraj Party, and continued to press demands for full responsible government.

Jinnahbhai Poonja put forth proposals that he hoped might satisfy a broad range of Muslims and reunite the League, calling for mandatory representation for Muslims in legislatures and cabinets.

Jinnahbhai Poonja remained in Britain for most of the period 1930 through 1934, practising as a barrister before the Privy Council, where he dealt with a number of India-related cases.

Jinnahbhai Poonja's biographers disagree over why he remained so long in Britain—Wolpert asserts that had Jinnah been made a Law Lord, he would have stayed for life, and that Jinnah alternatively sought a parliamentary seat.

Jinnahbhai Poonja lived and travelled with him, and became a close advisor.

Jinnahbhai Poonja remained titular president of the League, but declined to travel to India to preside over its 1933 session in April, writing that he could not possibly return there until the end of the year.

Jinnahbhai Poonja secured the right to speak for the Muslim-led Bengali and Punjabi provincial governments in the central government in New Delhi.

Jinnahbhai Poonja restructured the League along the lines of the Congress, putting most power in a Working Committee, which he appointed.

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Jinnahbhai Poonja continued to borrow ideas "directly from Iqbal—including his thoughts on Muslim unity, on Islamic ideals of liberty, justice and equality, on economics, and even on practices such as prayers".

Jinnahbhai Poonja helped to found the newspaper Dawn in the early 1940s in Delhi; it helped to spread the League's message and eventually became the major English-language newspaper of Pakistan.

Jinnahbhai Poonja proposed a temporary government along the lines which Liaquat and Desai had agreed.

Jinnahbhai Poonja demanded that Mountbatten divide the army prior to independence, which would take at least a year.

Jinnahbhai Poonja was treated with the new "miracle drug" of streptomycin, but it did not help.

Jinnahbhai Poonja's birthday is observed as a national holiday, Quaid-e-Azam Day, in Pakistan.

Jinnahbhai Poonja had against him not only the wealth and brains of the Hindus, but nearly the whole of British officialdom, and most of the Home politicians, who made the great mistake of refusing to take Pakistan seriously.