INDIAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS
Progress Results
(7.30 p.m.) NEW DELHI, Dec. 23. Results of 97 of 102 seats contested in the Central Assembly elections are as follows: Congress. 55; Moslem League, 27; Independents, five; Europeans, eight; Akala Sikhs, two.
The British Labour Government should decide India’s constitutional issues and not leave the decision to a minority of the enfranchised few. said Mr V. B. Karnik, secretary of the Indian Federation of Labour, at a Press conference in London.
Mr Karnik argued that disagreement between Congress and the Moslem League was likely to continue and even to become more embittered after the elections. India, he said, needed a democratic constitution evolved by consultation of all Indians. There was danger of the upper classes assuming narrow nationalistic control over India unless Britain worked for a democratic Socialist solution of the problem.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23392, 26 December 1945, Page 5
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