The Archive · 1928

Stormy Meetings in Lahore Lahore, Dee. 31

'A strong posse of police and a magistrate guarded the doors of tthe building in which the section of the All-India Moslem League which is meeting here held its session to-day.

Amidst seenes of uproar and confusion, a resolution was passed inviting leaders of all the nen-Moslem communities in India to come to a satisfactory settlement with the Moslem community before the Simon Commission, otherwise. known as the Statutory Commission, began its work with a view to the joint preparation of a draft Constitution for India, safeguarding the rights of all communities, to be presented to the Simon Commission, Parliament or both.

The. representatives of the Khalifat Party walked out of the meeting in protest, after failing to obtain the deletion of the last. clause of the resolution, as the aim of the Party is to free all Moslem fervtores from nen-Moslem inter-

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