Intro
In 1946, an Ahmadi by the name of Nawab Muhammad Din (see 8th March, 1946 khutba, pdf page 9, Khutbaat-e-Mehmood volume volume 27, page 94 onwards)(he was also president of the Sialkot Ahmadiyya jamaat). The name “Nawab Muhammad Deen” is mentioned in relation to politics, along with his son Muhammad Naqi, in this Khutba. Interestingly, it’s placed in the section where KM2 tries to rationalize why he ordered Ahmadis to vote for Ahrar. Nawab Muhammad Deen is acknowledged as an Ahmadi politician in this passage, but any details about his excommunication etcetera don’t seem apparent to me (page 12 pdf, Khutbaat-e-Mehmood volume volume 27, page 94). So much is clear though that KM2 did not look at him favorably. An interesting observation in the same Khutba, the entire Jamaat of Gujranwala was punished because they exercised their democratic right and voted to whom they saw fit (see 8th March, 1946 khutba, pdf page 9, Khutbaat-e-Mehmood volume volume 27, page 91).
This Ahmadi (Nawab Muhammad Din) was running against Mumtaz Daultana in Sialkot. Also, Sardar Shoukat Hayat would run messages to Qadian as needed for Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
We have also fond additional information Sardar Shoukat Hayat’s book “The Nation that lost its soul”, see in the below. A similar type of ex-communication happened in 1976 when an Ahmadi, Bashir Tahir tried to run for political office.
In September of 1946, (22 September 1946): the second Khalifa was making his way to #Delhi, where he had meetings with national political leaders such as Jinnah and Gandhi. The political atmosphere in the subcontinent was in despair for #Muslims in particular, and for the rest of the country too. As soon as the Khalifa reached Delhi, a series of meetings began with the following leaders: Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Nawab Sahib Bhopal, Khwaja Nazimuddin, Sardar Abdur Rab Sahib, Feroz Khan Noon, Nawab Sir Ahmad Hameed Khan, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and many more. (Tarikh-e-Ahmadiyyat, Vol. 9, pp. 319-331). See the ROR of Nov-1946 also.

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