Nehru Report vs. Jinnah's fourteen points : A comparative Analysis
A fter complete rejection of all-British Simon Commission lead by Sir John Simon, the British minister of India challenged that Indians cannot frame a constitution of their own by saying “ If they have any political capability and competence then they should form a unanimous constitution and present it to us and we will implement it.” In order to answer this challenge, a committee headed by Pandit Motilal Nehru, after staying at Allahabad for three months, constituted a memorandum named Nehru Repot. In the name of Muslim representation, it included only two Muslim members: Mr. Ali Imam and Mr. Shoaib Qureshi, though at the end some reservations of Shoaib Qureshi were left unaddressed. Nehru report demanded several rights and proposed a dominion status for India. It proposed a bi-cameral legislature. Although it claimed to be federal in nature, it proposed a unitary form of government with majority of powers resting in the centre, thus violating the minority rights in cas...