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দি ইভুল্যুশান অফ ইণ্ডিয়া এণ্ড পাকিস্তান: সি. এইচ. ফিলিপস পৃষ্ঠা-৩৭৮ |
১৬ই মে ১৯৪৬ |
THE CABINET MISSION
16 May 1946
1. On the 15th March last, just before the dispatch of the Cabinet Mission to India, Mr. Attlee, the British Prime Minister, used these words:
"My colleagues are going to India with the intention of using their, utmost endeavors to help her to attain her freedom as speedily and fully as possible. What form of Government is to replace the present regime is for India to decide; but our desire is to help her to set up forthwith the machinery for making that decision......?
I hope that the Indian people may elect to remain within the British Commonwealth. I am certain that she will find great advantages in doing so.......
'But if she does so elect, it must be by her own free will. The British Commonwealth and Empire is not bound together by chains of external compulsion. It is a free association of free peoples. If, on the other hand, she elects for independence, in our view she has a right to do so. It will be for us to help to make the transition as smooth and easy as possible.'
2. Charged in these historic words, we–the Cabinet Ministers and the Viceroy have done our utmost to assist the two main political parties, to reach agreement upon the fundamental issue of the unity or division of India. After prolonged discussions in New Delhi we succeeded in bringing the Congress and the Muslim League together in conference at Simla. There was a full exchange of views and both parties were prepared to make considerable concessions in order to try to reach a settlement, but it ultimately proved impossible to close the remainder of the gap between the parties and so no agreement could be concluded. Since no agreement has been reached, we feel that it is our duty to put forward what we consider are the best arrangements possible to ensure a speedy setting up of the new constitution. This statement is made with the full approval of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.
3. We have accordingly decided that immediate arrangements should be made whereby Indians may decide the future constitution of India, and an interim Government may be set up at once to carry on the administration of British India until such time as a new constitution can be brought into being.
India, Statement by the Cabinet Mission and his Excellency, the Viceroy, Cmd-6821 (1946)
