Now, gentlemen, this is the ideal of provincial autonomy and how has
this ideal to be worked out in practice? We must not rest content with
expressing our ideal. We must at once sit down to work to execute that
ideal. How do you propose to do it? Different schemes have been put
forward. There is the scheme of the 19 members, there is the scheme of
the Congress and the Moslem League. There is the scheme of the late Mr.
Gokhale. I do not desire to criticise those schemes because it is the
universal desire of all our leaders that every district ought to form
its own committee to frame its scheme and there should be a conference
in Calcutta, where the representatives from all these districts will
meet to discuss and deliberate on those schemes, and finally the scheme
which is to be presented to the Congress and the League and to the
Secretary of State, should be adopted.