CONFERENCE ON INDIA.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20096, 27 November 1930, Page 11

CONFERENCE ON INDIA.

FEDERAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIBBLKSB.) RUGBY, November 35. The British Indian delegation has resolved to request the Federal Relations Committee to co-opt the remaining members of the British Indian delegation, contending that it is impossible to represent all the interests by coopting an additional six members, and pointing to the fact that all members of the British delegation, and all but two of the States delegation, have been co-opted. Originally the delegation favoured a small Federal Relations Committee. The minority interests were prepared to leave their case respecting the general structure of the Constitution in the hands of an expert committee, in the expectation that they would be further heard on matters affecting their particular interests. As the Federal Relations Committee has now 'reached a membership of about 50 it could not be regarded as a small expert committee, arid might possibly extend its activities to a scope net previously contemplated. Therefore, the British Indian delegates considered that all interests should be represented on tho committee, thus becoming a committee of the whole conference, which could resolvfe itself into expert sub-committees as required.