The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday June 26 1944

If the peple really desire that the principle of colletive responsibility should be observed in the Ministerial administration of the country such a motion we think should not be brought forward at all and the rule should be made to fall into disuetude. [...] If a partcular Minister in following a policy of which the Legislature does not approve or if he having rendered himself personally unfit for the office by some lapse or laches is yet not repudiated by his colleagues the only correct and logical action on the part of the Legislture if collective responsibility is to be eforced Is to throw out the whole Ministry. [...] If the Ministry fails to do so then all the Ministers as a body become exponents of the political cult or moral standard which found expression in the acts of the individual Minister and if the Legislature disapproves of such cult or standard it must send the whole Ministry out of office. [...] But if they are brought forward at all on the ground that the rules permit them they should be interpreted to be really motions of nconfidence against the entire Ministry in intention and effect the name of a particular Minister being used only to specify with greater particularity the ocasion for the motion and the acts on which it is founded. [...] It may be as has been suggested to us that his Lordship is a member of the committee constituted to amend the rules relating to partition and adminietraCon and he was acquiring experience of the practical problems that present themselves in the actual application of the existing rules.