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Describe the planning of the Constituent Assembly according to Cabinet Mission Proposals.

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Characteristics of the Constituent Assembly according to Cabinet Mission Proposals.

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The Cabinet Mission with three members in it reached New Delhi on March 24, 1946. The Cabinet Mission presented its reports on May 16, 1946 to the New British Govt. It was said in the report that under present circumstances formation of the constituent assembly through adult voting is an impossible task. So the legislature formed according to Indian Government Act 1935 should be used as the electoral institution of provincial legislature. According to Cabinet Proposal, the Constituent Assembly was formed in November 1946.

The main characteristics of the Constituent Assembly were: 

1. According to Cabinet Plan, total number of membership was 389 out of which 296 members were from the British Provinces and 93 were from Princely states and 4 members were to be elected from the Chief Commissioners provinces. According to Cabinet Plan, the representation of the Provincial Legislature was to be divided into 3 sections. 

Section A – Madras, UP, Central provinces, Bombay, Bihar and Orissa. 

Section B – Punjab, Sindh, North – west frontier provinces and Baluchistan. 

Section C – Assam and Bengal.

292 members out of 296 were elected from these provinces and 4 members were to be elected from chief commissioners provinces (Delhi, Ajmer – Marwara and Coorg etc), the election for 296 was held in July – August 1946. Out of which Indian National Congress got 208 seats, Muslim League 73 and other smaller groups won 15 seats. The princely states kept themselves away from these elections. In the beginning all the 93 seats allotted to Princely States remained vacant, but later on the heads of these states started sending their representatives to join the Assembly.

2. Every province had to be allotted a total number of seats in the proportion to its population. Normally it was one seat over one million population. 

3. The determination of seats allotted to British provinces were to Muslims, Sikhs (only in Punjab), and other specific communities in the proportion of their population. 

4. The election of the representative of communities were to be made only by the members of related community. 

5. The nomination of the representatives for Princely States was done by the head of related Princely State.

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