few weeks of their taking office, however, the Central Government, which was still a Muslim League government as already pointed out, imposed the Governor's rule. The ground on which this step was taken was that the Chief Minister (the leader of the United Front) had made a speech, in Calcutta, which amounted to treason. Bui curiously enough, when the Governor's rule was lifted, the said gentleman was asked, by the very Prime Minister who had dismissed him carlier branding him a traitor, to nominate a member of his party to form the government in the province, though his was not the largest party in the House. By then, the United Front had broken up and several parties were ranged separately, with the result that no single party could. without igning itself with some other groups, form a ministry. One would have expected the largest party to be asked to take office but that course was not followed, apparently because it did not suit the Central Government. Subsequently, the party so favored failed to get its budget through, but the Centre, instead of calling upon the leader of the largest party, which with others had formed the opposition, to take office, imposed Governor's rule for certification of the budget. After this was done. the same favorite party was again installed into office but it could not last beyond the period of certification (being three months), and had ultimately to resign. The solution lay in bringing the Muslim parties together so that a stable government could be formed, but the parties would not merge their differences as none was willing to give up its position of vantage. If these representatives of the people had the interests of the country at heart they would have settled their differences and not remained so divided that a section of the minority community could hold the balance As has already been seen, in West Pakistan the creation of the Republican party was again not on any principle but only on personal considerations. There also, in 1957, Governor's rule was imposed to save the Republican party from defeat. It was lifted only when the Republicans could safely be reinstated. These instances clearly establish what we have observed already viz., that members of the legislatures, with a few exceptions, were not imbued with the spirit of service to the country, or even to the constituency, but concerned only with their wn interests. As. in the parliamentary form of government, the Head of the Executive, i.e., the Prime Minister or Chief Minister, as well as the ministers depend solely on the support to the majority party, they had to keep that majority satisfied and for that purpose did interfere in the administration, and in some cases their interference was also for their personal advantage.
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23. In the Constituent Assembly, which passed the late Constitution there was not a single party which could by itself command a majority, although to every patriotic Pakistani it must have occurred that the time had come for a merger of the various interests in order to work the new constitution successfully. Provincialism and personal advantage had such a strong hold on the politician that he forgot his duty to the country, with the result that, even in spite of the accord which enabled the constitution to be passed, the party groups continued to exist and only coalition ministries could be formed. After the Constitution was passed one would have expected the Prime Minister, who was successful in piloting it, to be able to continue in office for some time, but hardly six
