Jinnah Voted
as South Asia's Greatest Ever Leader
In a recent poll conducted
by BBC World Service, Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah
was voted as South Asian's Greatest Ever Leader.
Gandhi came in as a close second.
Readers were given 16 famous names to choose from
and the option of 'none of these' if they had
another choice.
VOTE RESULTS
Who is South Asia's greatest-ever leader?
Ahmed Shah Masood
0%
Atal Behari Vajpayee
1%
BP Koirala
0%
Chandrika Kumaratunga
0%
Indira Gandhi
1%
Jawaharlal Nehru
0%
JR Jayawardene
0%
Mahatma Gandhi
36%
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
39%
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
0%
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
0%
Subhash Chandra Bose
21%
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
0%
Ziaur Rahman
0%
Zahir Shah
0%
Zia ul Haq
0%
None of the above
0%
335422 Votes Cast
Results are indicative
Below, a sampling of the observations
of participants in the poll:
I am a born Indian but to be honest I would recognize
Quaid as the best leader of the Sub-continent.
His intellectual devotion and his whole life forces
me to rate him as the best of all great leaders
mentioned above.
Ravi Sharma, Delhi, India
I am an Indian, but I have to admit that Mohammad
Ali Jinnah was the best leader. He was in fact
the one who gave India's leader the idea of separation
from the British rule. He was the best leader
for both Pakistan and India, but Gandhi was the
best only Indian leader.
Raj Kumar, Bangalore, India
I quote Professor Stanley Wolpert: "Few individuals
significantly alter the course of history. Fewer
still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone
can be credited with creating a nation. Muhammad
Ali Jinnah did all three."
Humza Javed, U.A.E, Dubai
Jinnah's icy determination galvanized a community
into following him toward his goal, Pakistan.
It was the same determination, seen this time
as obduracy, that so infuriated Gandhi, Nehru
and Louis Mountbatten, Viceroy of India, who eventually
accepted the division of Britain's greatest imperial
possession into two sovereign countries--Pakistan
and India. "Failure is a word unknown to
me," Jinnah once commented. His personality
demanded a cool, cerebral response, working through
legal and constitutional channels to bring about
an end to British rule.
Adnan Sarosh, Daejon, South Korea
I think Jinnah was the greatest leader of all
because he struggled not only against Hindus and
the English but also against the Muslim mullahs
of his own community who were against the formation
of Pakistan .I am impressed by the fact that he
encountered all of them, alone, and got what he
dreamt of.
Omar, Sendai Japan
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