12. A proposal was made in the committee that a member of the minority community contesting a reserved seat should poll a minimum number of votes of his own community before he is declared elected. It was also suggested that cumulative voting should be permitted. The committee was of the view that a combination of cumulative voting and a minimum per- centage of votes to be polled in a community would have all the evil effects of separate electorates and that neither of these proposals should be accepted.
