Consider the following recommendations with respect to the Cabinet Mission Plan:
1. A federal system with the Centre controlling defence, communication, and external affairs.
2. Provinces were denied full autonomy and residual powers to be given to the Centre.
3. Provinces were allowed to leave the group after the first general elections.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 Only
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1 and 3
Explanation Statement 1 is correct: A federal structure was planned for India, with the Centre controlling defence, communication, and external affairs. Statement 2 is not correct: Provinces were to have full autonomy and residual powers. Statement 3 is correct: Provinces could leave the group after the first general elections as well as a province or a group could ask for reconsideration of the group or union constitutions after ten years.
Other Provision of the Cabinet Mission Plan;
The Mission Plan envisaged three sections: ● A: Comprising Madras, Bombay, United Provinces, Bihar, Central Provinces and Berar and Orissa, ● B: Consisting of Punjab, Sind and North-West Frontier Province ● C: Bengal and Assam.
A constituent assembly would be elected by provincial assemblies through proportional representation (voting in three groups: General, Muslims, and Sikhs). This assembly would have 389 members, with 292 from provincial assemblies, 4 from chief commissioner’s provinces, and 93 from princely states.
Princely states were no longer to be under paramountcy of the British government. They would be free to enter into an arrangement with successor governments or the British government.
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