Cabinet Mission, 1946

Cabinet Mission was composed of three Cabinet Ministers of England:

  1. Sir Petrick Lawrence, Secretary of State for India
  2. Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade
  3. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty

The mission arrived on March 24, 1946. The objective of this mission was to

  • Devise a machinery to draw up the constitution of Independent India.
  • The mission spent some 3 weeks to discuss with the leaders of various political parties, but could not arrive at any agreed solution. So, finally, it announced its own recommendations on May 16, 1946.
  • The cabinet mission plan of 1946 proposed that there shall be a Union of ....
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