The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights — Page 18
[ 18 ] Alongside of this, another demand relates to the re presentation of Muslims on the Central Legislature. ,It is urged that the Muslims who constitute one-fourth of the population should, so long as their numerical strength does not increase to one--third of the population, be given one--third of seats in the Central Legislature, but when their population grows to or exceeds one-third of the whole, then seats should be allotted to them on popula tion basis. III. -SEPARATE ELECTORATE. The third demand is that until mutual confidence between the Hindus and the Muslims has been restored, separate electorate system should be retained in all the provinces, or at least in Bengal and the Punjab, where Muslims are only in a small ,:najority, so that representa tives of the Muslims should be such in the truest sense of the word, and not mere puppets working against Moslem interests under the influence of the Hindus. IV. -N. W. F. PROVINCES AND BALUCHISTAN. The fourth demand relates to the extension of Repre sentative Government to the N. W. F. Provinces and Baluchistan, and the constitution of Sindh into a separate province with a legislature responsible to the people. V. -MINORITY's LANGUAGE. The fifth demand stresses the necessity of complete non-intervention on the part o-f the majority community in respect of the language or the script of the minority, and when a minority desires to keep its tongue alive, to make