»6:bም there is a modified proposal regarding that: a proposal is made that there should not be community constituencies with a communal register, but that there should be a common register in the constituencies : but that with a common register, a certain percontage of representation should bo guaranteed to certain communities. It is the first proposal in a somewhat more attractive, democratic form, but still essentially the same. . . . ‘It is very difficult to convince these vory dear delightful people (advocates of communal representation) that if you give ono community weightage. you cannot create weightage out of nothing. You have to take it from somehody else When they discovor that, they locome confused, indeed, and find that they aro up against a brick wall. তিনি আরও বলিয়াছিলেন – It is a very curionH problom, and if Hon. Members who are interested in those constitutional and political points caro to road carefully the Minorities Committee's Report, I promise them one of the most fascinatingly interesting studies which they have undertaken. Yon build up a Legislature, as this is built np, by constituencies. Voting in constituencies is not to take place and cannot at the moment take place in the way that voting in our constituencies takes place, where you might have an aristocrat as one candidate and a working man as another. You would have your constituencies divided up into sections with a certain number of working class constituencies where nobody but working mon could run as candidates, a certain number of, say. Church of Fingland constitucncies where nobody but communicating members of the Church of England would run, until you filled up the hundred por cent of your constitucncics in this way. Then before any election took place it would be porfectly rertain that Church of England people would have, sny, 15 per cent. of the scats here. working class, say, 25 per cent, and so on. Another problem that faces us from that point of view is, if your legislature is to be composed in these watertight compartments, those communitytight compartments, whom are you going to appoint your Exocutive? Executive, i.e., the Administration. the Cabinet, shall also be divided into watertight compartments.” এই রকমের কথ। বিখ্যাত ব্রিটিশ সাংবাদিক ব্ৰেলসফোর্ড প্রবাসী-বৈশাখ, ১৩৩৮ Tho claim is put that the , [ ৩১শ ভাগ, ১ম খণ্ড সাহেব বিলাতী নেখান এগু. দি এথানিয়ম কাগজে লিখিয়াছেন । যথা— The advance will be perilous and unhappy unless the new constitution brings with it the reality with the forms of democracy. On one condition there ought to be no hesitation. Parliamentary institutions cannot function on the basis of separato communal electorates. While these remain, no stable parties can be formed, nor can the electorate be trained to vote on the social and economic issues which clamour for constitutional handling. If the Moslem diellards voto any voluntary settlement with the Hindus, the British Government must he prepared to dictate. That way out of the injuasse even the Muslims in their hearts might welcome. So much, in a talk which I had at Delhi, their ablest leader confessed. Back and forward we had argued when at last he startled me by blurting out : “A Government should govern. You all believe in a single electorate. Why don’t you impose it 2" With this one change, the possibility of genuine democratic government would begin for India. Parties would be driven to seek support for programmes where today it suffices to appeal to religious prejudices.” হিন্দু মহাসভার পূৰ্ব্বোন্ধত মতবর্ণনাপত্ৰ পড়িয়া শ্ৰীমতী এনী বেসান্টের কাগজ নিউ ইণ্ডিয়া লিখিয়াছেন, যে, ইহা “unexceptionable both in form and substance.” “ইহাতে যাহা বলা হইয়াছে এবং যে-ভাবে বলা হইয়াছে, তাহাতে কিছু খুঁত ধরিবার জো নাই।” সমালোচনার কেবল একটি কথা নিউ ইণ্ডিয়া লিখিয়াছেন । বলিয়াছেন, হিন্দুমুসলমান সমস্তার সমাধানের কথা যদি নূতন করিয়া এখন উঠিত তাহা হইলে হিন্দু মহাসভার উক্তি সম্বন্ধে কিছু বলিবার থাকিত না ; কিন্তু পূর্কে ( লক্ষ্মৌ চুক্তি হইতে আরম্ভ করিয়া ) অন্তরূপ ব্যবস্থা কিছু কিছু হইয়া আসিয়াছে বলিয়া এখন এমন কিছু করিতে হইবে যাহাতে হিন্দুদের অধিকার কিছু বলি দিতে হইবে। এ-বিষয়ে আমাদের সাধারণ বক্তব্য এই যে, পূর্বে কোন ভুল হইয়া গিয়া থাকিলে সেই ভুলটাকে চিরস্থায়ী করা যুক্তিসঙ্গত বা কল্যাণকর হইবে না। আলোচ্য विष८ग्न निफे हेखिब्रांब्र भखद्य गचएक चांभांtजब्र रुख्वा ७हे
