Congress and Pakistan

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Re: Congress and Pakistan

@calypsodc

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.

True, but why Congress had agreed to such terms in 1916 Lucknow Pact? What had happened in between Lucknow pact and Nehru Report (1929) leading U-Turn by Congress? Did Congress turned nationalist in between or there were any major demographic changes that put majority Hindus at disadvantage as per the term agreed in Lucknow pact?