Congress’s Muslim alliance alienated both Hindu extremists and moderate Muslims

Evidence

Gandhi’s support for Khilafat, however, played straight into the hands of Hindu extremists, who had by then begun to claim that Muslims were not ‘true’ Indians because the centre of gravity of Muslim fealty lay outside of India. The Congress party’s alliance with conservative Muslims angered conservative Hindus as well as moderate Muslims. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 165