WEB DESK: The 88th death anniversary of a dynamic national political leader, educationist, journalist and a poet Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar was observed on Saturday.
He was born on 10th December 1878.
Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar was a very strong supporter of a separate homeland Pakistan.
He launched his famous English weekly “Comrade” from Calcutta in 1911 and his Urdu weekly “Hamdard” from Dehli in 1913.
He became a brilliant writer and orator, and wrote for major English and Indian newspapers, in both English and Urdu. He himself launched the Urdu weekly Hamdard and English Comrade in 1911.
He re-started his weekly Hamdard and left the Congress Party. He opposed the Nehru Report’s rejection of separate electorates for Muslims and supported the Fourteen Points of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the League. Maulana Jauhar attended the Round Table Conference to show that only the Muslim League spoke for India’s Muslims. He died soon after the conference in London, on January 4, 1931, and was buried in Jerusalem.
