Congress and Pakistan

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Re: Congress and Pakistan

@muqawwee123

before we turn our attention to achievable aspects of Mr Jinah’s 14 points, can someone explain why Congress took U-turn on separate electoral for Muslims and giving them 1/3 representation (as agreed by Congress in 1916 Lucknow pact) in Nehru Report which lead Mr Jinah to present his 14 points?

Congress opposed separate electorate and 1/3 representation because:

1. Congress presented itself as a national party which considered everybody equal irrespective of social background or religion and
   could not support identification of voters with a particular community.

2. Also consider a scenario where a province had say between 0-25% muslim minority population. How do U give 1/3 representation in
   such cases ? What about muslim dominated provinces? Did muslims get 1/3 representation here also ? How much representation
   would the other minorities get in muslim dominated provinces. I think these issues were not properly tackled. If U take the whole
   British India into consideration, as the majority community in most provinces, Hindus stood to lose from weighted minority
   representation. Congress decided this was not a balanced and fair situation and opposed 1/3 representation.

IMO, ML and Jinnah should have pushed for proportional representation depending on the demographics of a province.