… so Azim Premji, the founder of Wipro, would have been a citizen of Pakistan!

New Delhi. Founder of Wipro Azim Premji (Azim Premji) was born in 1945. About two years before India’s independence. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, wanted his (Azim Premji’s) family to stay in Pakistan instead of in India, but that was not possible. If his family had moved to Pakistan at the time of independence, every heart of the Indians would have been Aziz Azim Premji a citizen of Pakistan.

Azim Premji’s father Mohammad Hashim Premji was a big businessman in India. They came to India from Burma and established a rice business here. Although in Burma (now Myanmar) he had a large rice business and he was known as the king of rice in Burma. Then in 1945, he had to change his business due to the policy of the English government.

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Jinnah said Pakistan

Before India became independent, the Congress Party had a National Planning Committee. Like this committee, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, wanted his party (Muslim League Party) to be a separate planning committee. This thing has been around since before independence in 1944. Jinnah wanted educated and intelligent Muslims to be included in that committee. Jinnah offered Mohammad Hashim Premji to join the committee.

Not only that, when it was confirmed that India and Pakistan were going to be two separate countries, Muhammad Ali Jinnah wanted the Premji family to stay in Pakistan. Mohammad Ali Jinnah also offered Azim Premji to be Pakistan’s finance minister, which he rejected. Moreover, he refused to live in a country built on one religion.

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Azim Premji’s father Mohammad Hashim decided to stay in a secular country. If Premji had gone to Pakistan, India would not have a star like Azim Premji today. We have written a separate story about how Azim Premji raised Wipro and what his life was like, you can read it here – Azim Premji.