NEW APPOINTMENTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1943, Page 4

NEW APPOINTMENTS

TO VICEROY’S EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MINISTERIAL POSTS IN INDIA. REPRESENTATION IN LONDON. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) RUGBY. May 2. The King has approved the appointment of Sir Muhammad Azizul Huque, Dr H. N. Khare and Sir Asoka Kumar Roy (Advocate-General of Bengal), to be members of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India. The following appointments to portfolios have been made by the Gover-nor-General: — Member for Supply, Sir A. Ramas\wami Mudaliar, at present representative of India at the War Cabinet. Commerce Member, Sir Muhammad Azizul Huque, at present High Commissioner for India in London. Member in Charge of Information and Broadcasting, the Hon Sir Sultan Ahmed. Law Member, in succession to the Hon Sir Sultan Ahmed, Sir Asoka Kumar Roy. Member in Charge of the Department of Indians Overseas, Dr N. B. Khare. The Governor-General has appointed Sir S. Runganadhan, at present an adviser to the Secretary of State for India, to be High Commissioner for India in London, in succession to Sir M. A. Huque. It is understood that Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar will remain in London as representative on the War Cabinet for a few weeks before returning to India. No announcement regarding India’s subsequent representation at the War Cabinet is therefore to be expected for the present. The Viceroy’s Executive Council is now constituted with ten of its fourteen members Indian.