ABSTRACT
Muhammad Ali Jinnah said that he felt the motion on the boycott would be defeated by the government party as it was bribing members to vote against it. If the assembly, presumed to be representative of the enlightened classes in India, failed to give a response to the British government on this issue he would feel personal disappointment and shock, such a shock that it would cut his life short by several years. Jinnah's objection was that the commission comprised only members of the British Parliament and had no Indian members. He thought this was an insult to India. The world thought that all it meant was that power in India be transferred to a government which would be responsible to elected representatives of the people, a wholly democratic procedure.
