ABSTRACT
Raja Sahib arrived in Simla a few days before the opening of the assembly session. He called on a number of people including H. Calvert, the financial commissioner of the Punjab, who had been nominated as an official member of the assembly. During the 1923 election for the Central Assembly, the Swaraj Party said it intended to put up its own candidate against Jinnah in Bombay. Learning this some Muslim seths from Surat told Jinnah they could get him elected unopposed from Surat. Jinnah thanked them, but filed his papers from Bombay. Raja Gnazanfar Ali had made many speeches before village gatherings, but in the assembly, with all the prominent members there, he could not find the courage to open his mouth. He neither spoke nor asked a question, but listened and followed the party leader in voting. Muhammad Ali Khan, the elder Raja of Mahmudabad, was, like Jinnah, both a Congressman and a Leaguer for a number of years.
