The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights

by Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad

Page 110 of 199

The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights — Page 110

110 J f 01 c. . t' of t hi :, nrguuu nt uu 1 i l i here• that. w • f •. ) oll1- pc. . ll t c. l hy force. . of circ1t111Hl'1 tH'. and B har, wh r th y should 1 ct about 22 represental ivc s, they n1ay b • able to return only two or thrc� 111< rnhc rs. I do not here 1n an to discuss th rn rits or clen1 rits of the joint electorate sy�te1n. What I nn1 trying lo dis cover is whether the Mussalmnns, according to th reco1n mendations of the Nehru Co1nmitt e, have secured the proportion of r<: presentation they want d, or, at any rate, wheth r they have b t!n R8S\ll'cd of maintaining their present position. I inte11d to show on the basis of the Report itself that it is altog ·th r out of th qu stion for the Muslirns to xp ct nn incr ased repr s ntation. On the contrary, the MuslirnR cannot hope to rnaintain even their present proportion of r pres ntation.