7500 CIVILIANS DIED APPROXIMATELY 15000 WOUNDED MOHAMED ALI JINNAH SPEECH -DIRECT ACTION DAY 16 AUGUST 1946
7500 CIVILIANS DIED APPROXIMATELY 15000 WOUNDED MOHAMED ALI JINNAH SPEECH -DIRECT ACTION DAY 16 AUGUST 1946 GEORGE VI AGREED TO TRANSFER OF POWER TO INDIA 1946 Cabinet Mission Plan Direct Action Day towers over the psyche of Bengal. It came at the end of a long and tortured series of legal negotiations over the Cabinet Mission Plan, a constitutional scheme to transfer British power to a united if federated India. Initially, both the Muslim League and the Congress accepted the plan, even if the Congress’s approval (on June 25, 1946) was predicated on adding a rider to the original plan, which, wrote Indian constitutional law expert HM Seervai, effectively “nullified that acceptance”. transfer British power to a united if federated India The rider was meant to strengthen the Centre – the Congress was concerned at how little power Delhi had under the Cabinet Mission Plan. (Much later, in December 1946, the British Government would strike down the C...