Lahore enjoys a special position in the history of Pakistan Movement and Indian Independence Movement. The 1929Congress session was held at Lahore. In this Congress, a resolution of "complete independence" was moved by Pandit Nehruand passed unanimously at midnight on 31 December 1929.[26] On this occasion, the contemporary tricolour of India (with achakra at its centre) was hoisted as a national flag, and thousands of people saluted it.
Lahore prison was a place to detain revolutionary freedom fighters. Noted freedom fighter Jatin Das died in Lahore prison after fasting for 63 days in protest of British treatment of political prisoners. One of the martyrs in the struggle for Indian independence,Shaheed Sardar Bhagat Singh, was hanged in Lahore Jail.[27]
The most important session of the All India Muslim League, later the Pakistan Muslim League, the premier party fighting for Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan, was held in Lahore in 1940.[28] Muslims under the leadership of Quaid-e-Azam demanded a separate homeland for Muslims of India in a document known as the Pakistan Resolution or the Lahore Resolution. During this session,Muhammad Ali Jinnah, leader of the league, publicly proposed the Two Nation Theory for the first time.
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