Word: jinnah
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...toughest problem: to accept or reject the British version of how the Constituent Assembly should be run (TIME, Dec. 16). With Nehru and Kripalani went Gandhi's blessing and ad vice. They would not say whether the Mahatma had recommended concessions that might win Mohamed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League to Assembly participation...
...pilgrimage would influence more than a handful of Moslems. But few, doubted this week that it was his New Year's advice which Nehru and Kripalani ex pressed in a Congress resolution that gave a well-hedged "yes" to the British pro posal, and opened the door to Jinnah for a face-saving entry into the Assembly...
...dominated North-West Frontier; Group C paired Bengal and Assam, where 36 million Moslems live with 34 million non-Moslems. Congress held out for a prov-ince-by-province vote within each group, which would assure it of a dominant voice in eight drafts instead of six. Mohamed Ali Jinnah sat tight with the British; under the group-voting plan, he had a slight edge over Congress in Groups B and C. The apparent Hindu choices: acceptance, or an immediate showdown with the British and the Moslem League...
...predominantly Moslem Northwest. The trouble narrowed down to Group C in the East, consisting of Bengal and Assam. Nehru said that the vote in the Assembly should be cast by provinces, which would let him take advantage of the 7-to-3 Hindu majority in Assam. Jinnah said that the vote should be cast for Group C as a whole. In this way his 33to-27 majority in Bengal would wipe out the Hindu margin in Assam and give the Moslems a 36-to-34 edge (in effect, a limited Pakistan) in Group C. The British agreed with Jinnah...
...this interpretation of the rules, Nehru would not play. Jinnah said that unless he got his way, the 75 Moslem League seats would be vacant when the Constituent Assembly met in New Delhi to draft free India's constitution...