CONGRESS POLICY ON PARTITION ISSUE
NEW DELHI, May 4. The Gongress Working Committee has resumed the series of meetings at which it is discussing its policy towayds the pai'-tition of India. Mr. Gandhi, who attended the Cottgress Ri,gh Cqm mand's discussions on May 1, was pre sent again today, but left the pieeting for a 4^ hours/- talk vyith tlip Vieeroy (Yiscount Mountbaften), at which, it is belieyed, he outlined the Congress attitucle to tlie specific question of fche Northwest Fro.iitier Provitice. MpanyRile rnore claimants for independenpe are appearing 011 the sceueThe, Lucknow l)isttict Moslem League s has dpmandpd the creqtiop of an. inylependqnt so,vereign State centrecj 'on' the Lucknow district of : tlie United ProYinces. Tara Singh, the Bikh leader, in n : statement aike'4 Mr. Jinnah- to "give up. his hypperitieal roie of being a friencl, to tlie. yikhs. ' ' Tara Singh said that, if the Sikhs submitted- to a.UV dominatio.n, it , would be 'in tlie certain knowledge that they would.be extqin . minated.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 May 1947, Page 8
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