Minority rights for Indian Jews and Jewish representation in the Indian Constituent Assembly has been urged in a memorandum submitted to the Provisional Indian Government by the Bombay Central Jewish Board, A. Cynowicz, a member of the Board who is presently visiting here, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today.
He reported that negotiations on these demands are in progress, Cynowicz said that the Indian Jews are anxious to have safeguards for Jewish rights in the new constitution, although, he pointed out, there is no “Jewish problem” in India and candial relations exist between the Indian Nationalists and Jewish leaders, some of whom are members of the Congress Party.
Cynowicz declared that despite the tendency of European Jews in India, whom has estimated at about ten percent of the Jewish population, to emigrate and the graduate transfer of many Jewish-owned industrial establishments to Indians, political developements in the country will not materially affect the 30,000 to 35,000 Jews. Emigration is almost completely confined to European Jews, he emphasized.
Cynowicz participated in the last World Zionist Congress at Basic and was also a member of the Zionist Actions Committee. He plans to visit Palestine shortly prior to his return to Bombay.
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