Pakistan National Day to be celebrated in Delhi: What was the Lahore Resolution, which it marks

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Last Updated05/03/2024

Pakistan has decided to hold its National Day celebrations in New Delhi again this year, which is observed on March 23, the day the Lahore Resolution was adopted in 1940 by the Muslim League.

It was adopted by the All-India Muslim League during its general session in Lahore from March 22 to March 24, 1940, formally called for an independent state for India’s Muslims.
The resolution does not include the word ‘Pakistan’ anywhere.
The Lahore Resolution was criticised by many Indian Muslims, like Abul Kalam Azad and the Deoband ulema led by Husain Ahmad Madani, who advocated for a united India.
Geographically contiguous units are demarcated into regions which should be so constituted, with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary
- That the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a majority as in the North-Western and Eastern Zones of India
- Should be grouped to constitute “Independent States” in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign.”
In other parts of India where the Mussalmans are in a minority, adequate, effective and mandatory safeguards shall be specially provided in the constitution for them
- And other minorities for the protection of their religious, cultural, economic, political, administrative and other rights and interests in consultation with them.