1. Since the Congress agreed to the scheme of communal electorates for Muslims, it lost its secular character and the Congress paved the way for future communal tension.
2. The Pact provided for Muslim representation in the Councils far in excess of their proportion in the total population.
3. With the introduction of “Communal Veto” in legislation, no legislature could proceed with any Bill if three-fourth of the members of a particular community opposed it.
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4. In case there was a dead lock between the Executive and the Legislatures it could not be removed because the Executive branch of Government was responsible to the Secretary of State for India, operating from England.
The Lucknow session of the Congress is memorable for it marked the re-union of the Moderate and the Extremist parties after the Surat Split (1907). The union became possible with the deaths of Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Pherozeshah Mehta in 1915.
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