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195 In March۔1933, the British Government published the white paper embodying, in the main, the conclusions reached in the Round Table Conference but with significant changes designed to meet Conservative criticism۔The proposals in the White Paper were "so reactionary as to be utterly unacceptable to any section of progressive India opinion۔"The document was described by Srinivasa Sastri as" hideous, grinning anthropoid۔" The White Paper scheme was examined by a joint select Committee of the two Houses of Parliament۔In its report, the Committee generally endorsed the proposals embodied in the White Paper۔A few modifications introduced by it only made the scheme worse۔For instance, the Committee recommended indirect elections to the Federal Assembly as against the direct representation originally proposed۔The constitutional scheme, as it emerged from the Joint Parliamentary Committee was communalism run riot and retrogression in the name of reform۔This scheme took the form of Government of India Act of 1935 which Parliament in August 1935۔"13 موصوف نے اپنی کتاب کے صفحہ 249-250 میں انڈیا ایکٹ کی روشنی میں حق رائے دہی اور انتخابی عمل کا ذکر بھی فرمایا ہے۔جس سے صاف پتہ چل سکتا ہے کہ گول میز کانفرنس کے مسلم نمائندگان کی کامیاب نمائندگی نے آل انڈیا کانگرس کی مسلم امہ کے متعلق خوفناک سکیم کو پیوند خاک کر دیا اور وہ بر سر اقتدار برطانوی حکومت کے چوٹی کے سیاسی لیڈروں کو مسلم حقوق سے دستکش ہونے یازیر بحث نہ لانے میں سراسر ناکام و نامراد ہو گئی۔چنانچہ لکھتے ہیں۔"The act of 1935 made some improvement on the Act of 1919 by lowering the property and literary qualifications for franchise۔As a result, 35 million persons including more