The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights — Page 20
[ 20 ] Further more, the enacted measures should be enforced only in the province or provinces, two--thirds of the repre sentatives whereof had voted for such enactment. Unless such safeguards were provided the Hindus will be at any time in a position, by virtue of their overwhelming majority, to amend, modify or alter the laws and repeal all the protective measures which, while framing a consti tution for India, they would adopt in order to win over their Muslim partners. Demands of the Calcutta Muslim League. The Calcutta Muslim League, which the Nehru Com mittee claims to represent while favouring the idea of its delegates working conjointly with the Congress in draft ing a constitution for India enjoined upon them to keep. . 1n view: ( 1) that Sindh should be constituted into a separate and autonomous province ; (2) that the Reforms should be introduced in the N. W. F. Provinces and Baluchistan and they should be given the same rights as the other provinces ; (3) that under the present circumstances, the reten tion of separate electorate system in the different provinces is imperative for the protection of Muslim rights, and Muslims cannot forego the same until Sindh is constituted into a separate and autonomous province and the Reforms are introduced in Baluchistan and the N. W. F. Provinces. And only after the fulfilment of these conditions, the Muslims would be prepared to replace the separate elec torate by the joint-electorate system provided that the