Apart from the objection that the people's representatives in the Legislative Assembly will be over-ridden by a body of men not representative of the people the mischief of the proposal is accentuated by according to the members - of the Council of State the status of a class by themselves. [...] It is certainly not in the direction of the Government of India that the illustrious authors of the Report propose to apply their considered opinion that because we were all too slow in taking cognizance of the changes that were occurring the task is all the heavier because there is lee-way to make up." The distrust of the people is further made manifest when the introduction of the Indian elemen [...] In the proposals while recommending the appointment of a second Indian member the illustrious authors of the Report say that they do not think it necessary to argue the expediency of enabling the wishes of India to be further represented in the cabinet of the country. [...] The objection to the scheme as a whole lies however in the proposal that at the end of a period of five years the Reserved Subjects are not to come automatically under popular control but it will be open to the Central Government to hear applictions from either the Provincial Government or the Provincial Council for the modification of the Reserved and the Transferred subject lists of tfie [...] compartments of the Government may be and whatever its justification I am decidedly of the view that a total uconcern of the Ministers in the Reserved Subjects is not desirable for the objective being the ultimate realization of responsible Government the association of Ministers in some form or other with the administrtion of the Reserved Subjects will the better prepare them for the ul
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