CONGRESS COMMITTEE ACCEPTS BRITISH PLAN

Northern Advocate, 14 June 1947, Page 5

CONGRESS COMMITTEE ACCEPTS BRITISH PLAN

(Received noon) NEW DELHI, June 13. THE Congress Working Committee has endorsed Mr Nehru’s acceptance of the British plan for India. . The All-Indian National Congress Committee of 400 members meets tomorrow to ratify its leader’s decision. The committee, in the resolution accepting the British plan, expressed the hope that when present passions subsided India’s problems “would be viewed in the proper perspective and the false doctrine of two nations in India would be discredited and discarded.”

Pandit Sheelabhadra Yajee. secretary of the Foil-ward Bloc (a minor Loft Wing Congress grouping), said his organisation would drive out the British by raising a force of at least 1.000.000 to work along the lines of the Japanese sponsored by National Army which Chandra Bose organised during the war. “JINNAHBAD” CAPITAL It is officially announced that the Viceroy (Lord Mountbatten) discussed with seven Indian leaders the setting up of boundary comissions for the Punjab. Bengal and Sylhet (the Moslem majority district of Assam) and also arrangements for liaison with Indian states, avoidance of administrative disorganisation, when paramountcy lapses, and the formation of a tribunal to arbitrate boundary disputes. Moslem League sources in Bombay are suggesting that Mr Jinnah should be “immortalised” by building a new capital in Pakistan called Jinnahbad. The suggestion was made to solve rivalry between Moslems of the Sind and Punjab for the location of Pakistan’s capital. The Sind wants it in Karachi and the Punjab in Lahore.

Three were killed and seven injured in communal assaults in Calcutta today. Thirty-seven were arrested. Communal agitators burned houses and a textile mill at Amritsar and 10 houses at Lahore. Four were killed in an explosion at Rawalpindi, which was believed to be a communal outrage.