BRITISH PLAN FOR INDIA FAVOURED

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5280, 17 December 1946, Page 5

BRITISH PLAN FOR INDIA FAVOURED

(Press Assn.-

OONGRESS COMMITTEE MAJORITY APPROVES OI REDEFINED SCHEME

—Rec. 9.80 p.m.)

LONDON, Dec. 16. A strong majority of the Congress Working Committee, which finished a week of deliberations to-day, favours acceptance of the British plan for India as defined by Britain on Deeember 6 at the conclusion of the London. talks, says the Daily Telegraph correspondent in New Delhi. The Federal Court will probably deeide this week what oystem oi voting should be used in the Constituent Assembly when the constitutions of provinees and groups are decided, the correspondent adds. No responsible menxber of Congress expects other than a verdict upholding the British and Moslem League interpretation that a simple majority is sufficient. The Working Committee is praetically eertain to aeeept the ruling. A Congress spokesman said: "We are • not disturbed by the British Cabinet Mission's scheme, hui we feel that no provinee with a Hindu majority should unwillingly be forced into the Moslem group." Reuter's correspondent in Xew Delhi reports that members of the Indian States' negotiating committee have attached a statement to Mr. Xehru's resolution for the establishment of an independent sovereign i' public of India, which is now before the Constituent Assembly. The signatories include Sir Sultan Alimed, adviser to the Chancellor of Ramaswami Aiyer, Prime Minister of Travancore. They elaim that the bsiies raised by the resolution should not be decided in the Assembly until tlie negotiations eontemplated under the British Cabinet Mission plan beiween the negotiating committee and the committee representing British India have taken place. Debate Resumes on Proposal For Sovereign State CALCUTTA, Deeember 16. The Indian Constituent Assembly will to-day resume its debate on Pandit Xehru's resolution proposing the establishment of an independent sovereign State. In Calcutta to-day, Pandit Xehru aiidressed the annual general meeting of the Associated Cliambers of Commerce. His speech broke a tradition of 25 years, for hitherto the aninial meeting has been addressed by the Viceroy. The president of the Associated Cliambers of Commerce gave an assurance that the business community of India would continue to give its full support to any Government that i was in control of affairs. He added ;thu: Pandit Xehru and his colleagues , in i he Interim Government had the : goodwill of the business community. It is reported that because of his j heavy preoecupation Mr. Xehru has > had to pul, off his meeting to-morrow with Mr. Gandhi, who is touring the communhl riot areas of eastern ■ Bengal.