 The Muslim League declared that they would campaign on a single issue : Pakistan . Speaking in Ahmedabad , Jinnah echoed this , " Pakistan is a matter of life or death for us . " In the December 1945 elections for the Constituent Assembly of India , the League won every seat reserved for Muslims . In the provincial elections in January 1946 , the League took 75 % of the Muslim vote , an increase from 4 @.@ 4 % in 1937 . According to his biographer Bolitho , " This was Jinnah 's glorious hour : his arduous political campaigns , his robust beliefs and claims , were at last justified . " Wolpert wrote that the League election showing " appeared to prove the universal appeal of Pakistan among Muslims of the subcontinent " . The Congress dominated the central assembly nevertheless , though it lost four seats from its previous strength . During this time Muhammad Iqbal introduced Jinnah to Ghulam Ahmed Pervez , whom Jinnah appointed to edit a magazine , <unk> @-@ e @-@ Islam , to propagate the idea of a separate Muslim state . 
