In his riposte, Jinnah spoke of Jawaharlal as the Peter Pan who refused to grow up, ‘the busybody [Congress] President’ who ‘must poke his nose in everything except his own business’. Rejoining the slanging match, Jawaharlal declared that there were Muslims in the Congress ‘who could provide inspiration to a thousand Jinnahs’.33 An announcement by Nehru that the Congress would promote ‘mass contact’ with ordinary Muslims was denounced by the League as a bid to influence the ordinary Muslim’s beliefs and practices.
