Who said, "I believe separate electorates will be suicidal to the minorities and will do them tremendous harm."
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Govind Ballabh Pant
During the debate on 27 August 1947, Govind Ballabh Pant opposed separate electorates as a suicidal demand that would permanently isolate the minorities and deprive them of any effective say in the government.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
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* A similar question.
NCERT (2026-27): “3.1 The problem with separate electorates … Govind Ballabh Pant declared that it was not only harmful for the nation but also for the minorities. He agreed with Bahadur that the success of a democracy was to be judged by the confidence it generated amongst different sections of people. He agreed too that every citizen in a free state should be treated in a manner that satisfied ‘not only his material wants but also his spiritual sense of self-respect’, and that the majority community had an obligation to try and understand the problems of minorities, and empathise with their aspirations. Yet Pant opposed the idea of separate electorates. It was a suicidal demand, he argued, that would permanently isolate the minorities, make them vulnerable, and deprive them of any effective say within the government.…”
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