The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights — Page 10
[ 10 ] Muslim League ; for this Report has confessed that the Calcutta League had issued instructions to its members that unless its resolutions had been first accepted, they were not to join the Committee's deliberations. The question arises, did the Calcutta League ever revoke this decision? From the Report it does not appear that it ever did. Does it not follow then that the Leaguers served on the sub-committee, formed in pursuance of the Bombay Conference Resolution, not in conformity to but in defiance of the same instructions, which laid strong emphasis on an unqualified acceptance of the Calcutta Resolutions by the Nehru Committee, as a condition pre cedent to their participation in any deliberation connected with the constitutional question? No meeting of the League was held to reverse the decision during or after the Bombay Conference. How could then the members of the League go out of their way and act contrary to their explicit instructions? Here again the question arises,-did the Nehru Committee fully accept the Calcutta League proposals? They have themselves admitted that they did not ( vide the Nehru Report, p. 25 ). The Muslim delegates also admit the same. How could then the representatives of the League in justice to the League's decision, sit and work conjointly ,vith the committee? And if inspite of the League's inscruction3 they did not withdraw from the Nehru Committee after it had given its verdict against the Calcutta proposals they had ipso /acto ceased to be delegates of the League. The inference is clear that the Nehru Committee did not represent even that section of the League which is under the presidency of Mr. Jinnah, and hence it remained all the more unrepresented by the Muslims. And this is perhaps what led lv1essrs. Muhammad Y akub, Shaukat Ali, Hasrat Mohani, Shafi