PROPOSED INTERIM GOVERNMENT
INDIAN LEADERS TO MEET VICEROY Cabinet Mission’s Rejection Of Pakistan Only Solution To Problem, Says Jinnah London, May 22. The Viceroy of India has asked Dr. Azad and Mr Nehru, the president and president-elect of the Congress Party, to meet him to-morrow to discuss the scope and composition of the proposed interim government. The Cabinet mission, in reply to a letter from Dr. Azad asking for clarification of certain points in the British proposals, is reported to have indicated that it would be open to the Constituent Assembly to decide certain questions raised. Mr Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, in a statement made today in Simla, regrets the British Cabinet mission’s rejection of Pakistan. The Moslem League, ho said, still regards a complete sovereign state of Pakistan as the only solution to the constitutional problem and as the only way to secure the welfare of Moslems and others. Mr Jinnah claims that if there is to be a government and parliament as the centre the Pakistan group should have parity there with the Hindustan group. The Moslem League’s final decision on the British proposals will not be given until its working committee and council consider them at a joint meeting early next month.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14067, 23 May 1946, Page 3
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