ICSE-X-History
11: Independence and Partition of India
- #6What was the reaction of Indian National Congress towards Cabinet Mission Plan?Ans : Reaction of the Congress: Congress Working Committee agreed to join the Constituent Assembly (a sovereign body) with a view of framing the Constitution of a united democratic India.
Major objections of the Congress were:
- The Plan will divide India into small states.
- It objected grouping of provinces on a communal basis.
- It objected the inclusion of Assam, a Hindu-majority province with the Muslim-majority Bengal province.
- It opposed the League's claim that it alone had the right to nominate all the Muslim members to the Executive Council.
- Interim Government would have a limited status.