ABSTRACT
In the Muslim majority provinces the ministries continued to function and in every one there was ministerial wrangling, except the Punjab. The Punjab remained apart from these tussles. Some time after Sir Sikandar's death a political crisis did develop in the Punjab. The new premier of the Punjab proved to be a typical landlord with the expected characteristics of following the old traditions and taking each step with caution. He had inherited political problems which conflicted but he chose to tackle them as a conservative rather than as a pragmatist. The fundamental point of the arrangement was that the Muslim members of the Unionist Party had become the Muslim League party in the assembly, i.e., they had assumed the status of a separate and permanent parliamentary party. In 1943, a small group of the Muslim members of the assembly gathered around the new League president, Nawab Iftikhar Husain Khan of Mamdot.
