The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights — Page 30
I 30 J all newly fonned provinc<·s, by separation from oth r provinces, shall have the same form of governrnent a the other provinces in India. '' From the abov" quotation it will appear that whil dealing with the question of constitution alJ referenc to Baluchistan has been omitted. May be, this was du� to oversight. Nevertheless, the matter ib left doubtful. At any rate, we are justified to hold that the hru Committee has failed to fulfil those conditions upon which depended the Calcutta League's decision to abandon th system of separate electorate, and quite indep nd ntly of which, the Lahore League had decided to stick to th system for sometime to come. But the matt r do not end there. The wordings of the Calcutta L a u r olu tion clearly signify that the l�eague does not only d rn nd that the Hindus should agre•� to fulfil th condit1on before dispensing with separate I ctorat , but it n1 k two further provisos also, namely (I) that th condition should be practically acted upon, and (2) that �us\im should also satisfy thems lv s a r ards the r sult of the working thereof. It says • • Wh n th s condition have been fully compli cl with th i'ilus alrnans will b prepared to abandon the separat el ctorat syst m for the joint electorate. '· The Nehru Committe without accepting these con ditions, simply upon its own reco1nn1endation. dispen ed with the separate electorat syst rr1. On th contrary according to the reservation made by the Muslim League, it should have stated in unequivocal tenns that joint elec torate system would conle into operation only when the three preliminary conditions had been complied with. Similarly in the Muslim League Resolution, the words used are:-" then the Mussalmans will be prepared to abandon. '' According to the wording of the resolution