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• Sardar Patel strongly declared that separate electorate was a poison that has
entered the body of politics of our country and turned one community against
other, caused blood sheds, riots and partition. So for a peace we need to remove
separate electorate.
• GB Pant in a debate said, separate electorate is not only harmful for nation but
also for minorities. He said that majority community had an obligation to try and
understand the problem of minorities and empathise with their aspirations.
Demand of separate electorate would permanently isolate the minorities and will
make them vulnerable and in addition it will deprive them of any effective say
within government.
• All these arguments against separate electorate was based on the unity of nation,
where every individual is a citizen of a state, and each group had to be assimilated
within the nation.
• The Constitution will grant citizenship and rights, and in return citizens had to offer
their loyalty to the state. Communities could be recognized as cultural entities and.
politically members of all communities are equal to the member of the state.
• By 1949, most of the Muslim members of constituent assembly were agreed
against separate electorates and removed it.
• Muslims needed to take an active part in the democratic process to ensure that
they had a decisive voice in the political system.

Objective Resolution of the Constitution:

• NG Ranga, a socialist and a leader of peasant movement welcomed the Objective
Resolution and urged that the term minority be interpreted in economic terms. The
real minorities are poor and downtrodden.
• NG Ranga welcomed all legal and civil rights granted by the constitution to its
citizen but said these rights can only be enjoyed when suitable conditions or
opportunities are provided. Therefore to make the condition of poor and
downtrodden better and protect them, there is need of much more than this
resolution.
• Ranga also talked about huge gap between the masses of India and their
representatives in the assembly. Most of members of constituent assembly does
not belongs to masses. But, they are representing them as their trustees, their
companions and trying best to work for them.
• Jaipal Singh a representative, a tribal, spoke in detail about the exploitation,
oppression and discrimination faced by tribal all through the history. He further
said about the need to protect the tribes and to make provisions that would help
them come to the level of the general population.
• Jaipal Singh said, there is a need to break physical and emotional distance to
integrate them into mainstream. He stressed on reservation of seat in legislature,
as it helps them to give their demands voice and people would be compelled to
hear it.

Provision in the Constitution for Depressed Classes of our Country: