QUAID-E-AZAM'S FOURTEEN POINTS - Flowers Special Issue

1. The form of the future constitution should be federal, with the residuary power vested in the provinces.

2. The form of the future constitution should be federal, with the residuary power vested in the provinces.

3. All legislatures in the country and the other elected bodies shall be constituted on the definite principle of adequate and effective representation of minorities in every province without reducing the majority in any province to a minority or even equality.

4. In the Central Legislature, Muslim representation shall not be less then one-third.

5. Representation of communal groups shall continue to be by separate electorates; provided that it shall be open to any community, at any time, to abandon its separate electorate in favor of joint electorates.

6. Any territorial redistribution that might at any time be necessary shall not in any way affect the Muslim majority in the Punjab, Bengal and North-West Frontier Province.

7. Full religious liberty, that is, liberty of belief, worship, and observance, propaganda, association, and education, shall be guaranteed to all communities.

8. No bill or resolution or any part there of shall be passed in the legislature or any other elected body if three fourths of the members of any community in that particular body oppose it as being injurious to the interests of that community or in the alternative, such other method is devised as may be found feasible and practicable to deal with such cases.

9. Sindh should be separated from Bombay Presidency.

10. Reforms should be introduced in the North-West Frontier Province and Balochistan on the same footing as in other provinces.

11. Provisions should be made in the constitution giving Muslims an adequate share along with the other Indians in all the services of the State and in local self-governing bodies having due regard to the requirements of efficiency.

12. The constitution should embody adequate safeguards for the protection of Muslim culture and for the protection and promotion of Muslim education, language, religion, personal laws and Muslim charitable institutions and for their due share in the grants-in-aid given by the State and by self-governing bodies.

13. No cabinet, either Central or Provincial, should be formed without there being at least one third of Muslim Ministers.

14. No change shall be made in the constitution by the Central Legislature except with the concurrence of the States constituting the Indian federation.

By Naela