ICSE-X-History
11: Independence and Partition of India
- #33Give the reasons for the Muslim League's acceptance and later rejection of the Cabinet Mission plan.Ans : The League was accepted it in its entirety on June 6, 1946, because it felt that the grouping of Muslim majority provinces in a way meant the formation of Pakistan. The league asked Wavell, the Viceroy, to constitute an Interim Government. Election to the Constituent Assembly were held in July 1946, in which the Congress obtained two-third majority. The Congress had an overwhelming majority in the Constituent Assembly. The League feared that it would be out voted in the Assembly. It also feared that the British withdrawal from India would mean transfer of power to the Hindus, who were in a majority in India. Thus, the league the cabinet mission plan.