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Fazle Umar 158 in Indian political circles. In an effort to placate opposition to the Commission, it was announced that the Commission would invite a committee of the Central Indian Leg- islature to sit with it and to participate in its proceedings while the Commission exam- ined witnesses, and when the Commission visited each province, a committee elected by the Provincial Legislature should also sit with it and participate in its meetings. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II [ra] came out very strongly in support of the presentation of the Muslim case before the Commission, both at the provincial and central levels. He made out a strong case in favour of cooperation; lest the Muslim case should go by default. He did not profess to hope for any very favourable result from the report of the Commission, but was anxious that the Muslim case should be put clearly and forcibly before the Commission. The very strong plea that Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II [ra] made for coopera- tion had considerable influence in persuading Muslims to cooperate in setting up the Central and Provincial committees which were to work with the Commission. R IG H T S OF M U SL I M S A n d T H E 1 9 2 8 n E H RU R E P ORT Parallel with the activities of the Simon Commission, the All India Congress established a committee of ten members under the chairmanship of Pandit Moti Lal Nehru for the purpose of proposing a constitution for India which should have the support of all political parties and minorities, and which could be treated as the agreed demand of the whole of India. The committee was known as the Nehru Committee. Its report was published on 12 August 1928. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih II [ra] was much perturbed on reading the report as the proposals embodied in it, if they were accepted and given effect to in the future constitution of India, would place the Muslims of India completely at the mercy of the majority and their future in India would be put in serious jeopardy. He carried out