Correct Answer - Option 1 : B
The Correct Answer is "B".
- The Cabinet Mission Plan was a statement made by the Cabinet Mission and the Viceroy, Lord Wavell, on May 16, 1946, that contained proposals regarding the constitutional future of India in the wake of Indian political parties and representatives not coming to an agreement.
- The members of the Cabinet Mission were: Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, and A.V Alexander, First Lord of Admiralty.
- In September 1945, the newly elected Labour government in Britain expressed its intention of creating a Constituent Assembly for India that would frame India’s Constitution; the Cabinet Mission was sent to India in March 1946 to make this happen.
- The Mission had to deal with a major obstacle: the two main political parties – the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League – had fundamental differences over India’s future.
- The Muslim League wanted the Muslim majority provinces of India to constitute a separate sovereign state of Pakistan, the Congress wanted a united India.
- The Mission, at the Shimla Conference, attempted to facilitate an agreement between the Muslim League and the Congress.
- When this failed, the Mission came out with its own proposals known as the Cabinet Mission Plan.
Objectives of Cabinet Mission were :
- To formulate a constitution-making body (the Constituent Assembly of India).
- To establish an Executive Council with the support of the major Indian parties.
- To obtain an agreement with the Indian leaders as to the framing of a constitution for India.
