Constituent Assembly Debates Thursday 17th July 1947 Official Report

One of the conditions is that there must be at least two big parties and the Leader of the House must have the confidence of that party which is in the majority in the House. [...] In doing so it will not be out of place if I observe that the constitution the draft of it the report of it which is placed before us except for a few questions such as the election of the Governor and the term of office of the Advocate General looks as if it has been copied from the 1935 Constitution in regard to the Provincial Autonomy. [...] Otherwise if it is left to the choice of the Governor if there are two equal parties or if there is a slight difference instead of calling for the party which is slightly in the majority the Governor may call as the Governor of Sind did the other party to form the Cabinet. [...] The other point is as I said in the beginning it would have been better that instead of allowing the Cabinet to be formed by the Governor the Legislature forms the Cabinet. [...] The relevancy of the question is that the whole amendment is based upon the complaint that the Muslims form a small minority—it refers to all other minorities— and that therefore one section being in a vast majority by sweeping the polls will on the principle of responsible government sweep the Ministries and that the minorities will suffer.