 In the next two years , Jinnah worked to build support among Muslims for the League . He secured the right to speak for the Muslim @-@ led Bengali and Punjabi provincial governments in the central government in New Delhi ( " the centre " ) . He worked to expand the league , reducing the cost of membership to two annas ( ⅛ of a rupee ) , half of what it cost to join the Congress . He restructured the League along the lines of the Congress , putting most power in a Working Committee , which he appointed . By December 1939 , Liaquat estimated that the League had three million two @-@ anna members . 
