Almost all the recent polls show that the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, has a double digit lead over President Trump and that the gap is widening. Moreover, Biden is leading in most of the battle ground states including several that Trump won in 2016.
Jinnah was certainly responsible more than most for the division of the country. He turned the Muslim League’s original brief that was to protect Muslim interests where they were most vulnerable, namely in the Muslims minority provinces, on its head by advocating that the Muslim majority areas should be separated from the rest of India.
The division of British India on the basis of religious majorities was the principal factor that reinforced and legitimized the ideology of Hindu nationalism.
The ease with which the Gandhis successfully turned the demand for organisational reform into an attack on themselves is proof of the high degree of control exercised by them over the party.
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