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41 the ultimate rulers of India. The Viceroy commissioned a report to look into the points raised by the Committee. The report and its recommendations were limited to what the British thought they could persuade the Kashmiri rulers to accept. Some of these recommendations were accepted by the rulers of Kashmir and for the first time in many years the people of Kashmir had a little relief and, more importantly, there seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel. But unfortunately for the people of Kashmir this ray of light was about to be stubbed out. Even though Hazrat Mirza Bashir-ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra was re-elected to the position of president unanimously and unopposed, at the next year’s election there was an undercurrent of dis- cord. There were members whose hatred for the Ahmadiyya Community was greater than their love for the Muslims of Kashmir. These members requested that the post of presi- dent should be held by a non-Ahmadi. Hazrat Mirza Bashir- ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad ra again stated to the committee that this discord between them would undo the good work of the Committee thus far and offered his resignation to try and reunite the parties. Maulana Sayyid Habeeb, a member of the committee made the following comment on the resignation: In my opinion, the resignation of Mirza Sahib amounts to the death warrant of the Kashmir Committee.