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Long Road to Democracy Chapter 1

The Nehru Report recommended adult
Universal adult suffrage is at present being successfully worked on
suffrage. It proposed that (under Dominion
a small scale in the elections to the Shromani Gurdwara
Status) House of Representatives shall
Prabandhak Committee (Central Sikh Shrines Committee),
consist of 500 members to be elected by
which are held all over Punjab. Its introduction on a larger scale constituencies determined by law. Every
only means a multiplication of the machinery employed. We do person of either sex who has attained the age
not see why such multiplications with all the trouble and expense
of 21, and is not disqualified by law, shall be
it involves should be considered unreasonable when it is necessary
entitled to vote. The report praised the
for the purpose of laying the foundation upon which the
practice of the adult suffrage prevalent in the
responsible government rests.
- Nehru Report (1928) elections of Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak
Committee (Central Sikh Shrine Committee).

Cries of “Simon, Go Back” rang out in every city, 1928

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