ABSTRACT
The creation under the Government of India Act, 1935, of a wide electorate led to determined efforts by the National Congress to secure widespread support for its candidates on the basis of definite hostility to the Act. A constitutional development of great interest is the fact that several Congress ministries are subject to the control of Congress in their activities. The Congress majorities in the provinces have naturally been used to protest against the scheme of the Act of 1935 and to press for the summoning of a constituent assembly to devise a constitution for India. In a matter of some importance the Act of 1935 has left paramount authority as the only means of securing respect to its terms by the states. Their Courts are bound by the interpretation given by the federal court to any legislation on which the federal legislature has power to bind the state.
