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Explain the views given in favour of separate electorates in the constituent assembly.

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Solution :(i) On 27 August, 1947. B. Pocker Bahadur from Madras moved a POWERFUL plea for continuing separate ELECTORATES. He explained that minorities existed in all lands. They could not be washed away.
(ii) The need was to create a political framework in which minorities could livein harmony with OTHERS, and the differences between communities could be minimised.
(iii) The minorities will be represented with in the political system, their voices heard and their views taken in to account.
(iv) Only separate electorates would ENSURE that muslims had meaningful voice in the governance of the country.
(v) The needs of muslims could not be properly understood by non-muslims, nor could a true representative of muslims be chosen by PEOPLE who did not belong to that community.


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