Which of the following features were included in the “Cabinet Proposals”?
1. The princely states would retain all subjects other than, those ceded to the Union.
2. Setting up of Constitution making body by the Indians.
3. Formation of Executive Council and equal representation to the Muslims and Hindus in the council.
4. Elections to Constituent Assembly were to be held by a method of proportional representation by the provincial assembly.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below.
1, 2 and 4
Wavell Plan recommended for the Viceroy’s Executive Council would be immediately reconstituted and the number of its members would be increased. And in the Council there would be equal representation of high-caste Hindus and Muslims.
The objective of this mission was to devise a machinery to draw up the constitution of Independent India. Make arrangements for interim Government. Thus the mission was like a declaration of India’s independence.
The cabinet mission plan of 1946 proposed that there shall be a Union of India which was to be empowered to deal with the defense, foreign affairs and communications.
The cabinet mission recommended an undivided India and turned down the Muslim league’s demand for a separate Pakistan. The Cabinet mission restricted the Communal representation. It also provided for formation of the constituent assembly on democratic principle of population. It recognized Indian Right to cede from the Commonwealth.
The Union Government and its legislature were to have limited powers, dealing with Finance, Foreign Affairs and Communications. The union would have powers necessary to raise the finances to manage the subjects.