Morley-Minto Reforms and they introduced the principle of
communal electorates and these communal electorates were intended to keep, the
people apart, The higher mind ... they
would betray the trust placed upon them if they foisted communal electorates.
They would inject a poison into the very body politic which could
Highness the Aga Khan had led a deputation and
negotiated for separate electorates. The vicious seed grew big and bore fruit ... less
incorporated in the Montagu Reforms. We were hoping that with the lapse of a
decade these vicious separate electorates would come
idea of separate electorate in 1898. Eleven years hardly passed
and you find an insistence in the Minto-Morley Reforms for implementing
this ... lead into something
deplorable as is our experience with regard to separate electorate ? Having
stated so far about backward tribes and areas, I come
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provide such safeguards as will give general satisfaction by ensuring that our
electoral machinery will be free not merely from provincial political
influences but also ... should be taken to ensure the fair working of the electoral
machinery. If the electoral machinery is defective or is not efficient or is
worked
resolving a ministerial crises or on the pretext of purifying or reforming
maladministration obtaining in a particular State, the President may have
recourse to this ... dissolution of the
legislature by the Governor and a reference to the electorate. The Governor is
empowered by article 153 to dissolve the legislature
cleavage introduced into the national life by the Minto-Morley
Reforms, under which the non-Muslims were separated from our Muslim brethren.
She made ... should
devote myself heart and soul to the abolition of this communal electorates
business. I am thankful that God has spared my life so that
really
supreme power in the State. The majority of the French electors were under
the constitution the true sovereign of France; but the rule which ... land into conflict with the will of the majority of the electors and produced,
therefore, as a rigid Constitution has a natural tendency to produce
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