4. Opportunities for trade and commerce should not be shut out to the minority communities.
It is not merely enough if in the objectives of the Constituent Assembly there is a declaration about the fundamental rights of Indian citizens. In the constitution adequate safeguards have to be statutorily provided to prevent provincial governments from having their own way, inconsistent with the declaration of fundamental rights and to enable the linguistic and cultural minorities to exercise their genuine and legitimate rights in a free and democratic republic. Such statutory safeguards will also strengthen provincial governments in their efforts to legislate in consonance with the spirit of the declaration of fundamental rights. The Constituent Assembly, it is hoped, will do what all is needed not only to give these statutory safeguards to linguistic and cultural minorities but also to make it clear that they are rights enforceable in common courts of law. It has also to make it the duty of the State to bear the costs of any incidental litigation that any body of citizens who belong to a minority, religious or linguistic, is declared to be entitled to raise, by the local High Court.