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In a discussion on the civil service - whose independence was secured constitutionally rather than by statute - one member candidly admitted that he "had no faith in adult franchise". "I do not know", he exclaimed,"what kind of people will come in the future Parliament of India. In the heat of extremism or at the altar of some radical ideology, they may like to do away with the provision that we have made.."