Cocanada : Kākināda, a seaport & H.Q. of East Godāvari district, Madras. It was here that the Dec.1923 INC Session was held under presidentship of Md. Ali, the chief architect of the Khilafat Agitation. It rejected Das’ Bengal Pact & approved the Resolution moved by Lajpat Rai & Dr. Ansari reserving 25% share in all-India services for Muslims. Md. Ali announced that “extra-territorial sympathies are part of the quintessence of Islam” & asked Muslims to join Gandhi & Muslim League’s agitation to ensure their Pan-Islamic objective. At the same time, the Jamait-ul-Ulema Conference being held alongside, denounced Hindus attempting to reconvert former Hindus as “worst enemies of India, & their work likely to weaken the basis of Hindu-Muslim unity”. A.B. Purani: “On 6 January 1924: Some men who had attended the Cocānada session of the Congress came to Pondicherry. They had a row with the French police while registering their names. Some members of the group were known to some inmates of Sri Aurobindo's house & there was a chance that Sri Aurobindo might become involved in the trouble. He said, ‘This is an effort of the outside forces to disturb the atmosphere which I have established here with great difficulty.’ [Life of Sri Aurobindo]
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