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What 1916 pact did Muhammad Ali Jinnah play a big role in negotiating?

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He played a major role in negotiating the so-called Lucknow Pact (1916) between the League and the Congress, in which the latter conceded that Muslims should have a separate communal electorate to ensure them adequate legislative representation.

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