The Nehru Report and Muslim Rights — Page 1
U:be 1Hebru==1Rcport anb flDusli 1n 1Rtobts In !he na,110 of. Jllal,, the Beneficent, the J,{erciful. He alcnc is the Helper. CHAPTER I. Did the Nehru Committee Represent All-India? � HE first question we have to ask in dealing with the Report is • ·was the Nehru Committee a representa tive body and are its deliberations entitled to the same consideration as the report of an All-India Committee?'' And the answer is furnished by the Report itself. It is abundantly clear from the Report that the aforesaid com mittee is not in any sense entitled to be regarded as a body representative of the country. From the Report it appears that All-Parties Confer ence at Bombay appointed this Committee on May 19, J 928; and what this self-styled All-Parties Conference was, and how it came into being, may be further read in the Report itself. The Report says that in view of the increasing difference between the Hindus and the. Muslims, the Na tional Congress which met in Gauhati in December, 1926, Passed a resolution calling upon '' the Working Com mittee to take immediate steps in consultation with Hindμ and Mussalman leaders to devise means for the remov�l of the present deplorable differences between Hindus