ABSTRACT
The Intermira Government at the center was the most important front in the battle for Pakistan but the Muslim League also had to fignt political battles on four provincial fronts in the begining of 1947. The Muslim League asked the speaker to resign and thereby added another member to its strength. No party was willing to have one of its members elected speaker as it would tilt the balance. Under these circumstances Governor Mudie dissolved the assembly and ordered new elections. On February 20, the British government had announced that it would transfer power by June, 1948, and that it might be necessary to do so to provincial governments. The organized and peaceful way in which the Muslim masses of Lahore ran this movement with the full support of the people for more than a month was a bright chapter in the Pakistan movement. In Assam, the provincial government had launched a drive to evict Muslim settlers from the province.
