Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Which one of the following correctly describes the provincial right to reconsider grouping under the Cabinet Mission Plan?

  1. Every province could refuse initial grouping before the Constituent Assembly first met, without participating in its assigned section.
  2. Initial grouping was treated as compulsory, but a province could leave after the first general elections and seek constitutional reconsideration after ten years.
  3. Provinces could never leave their assigned groups once the Plan was accepted.
  4. Only princely states, and not British Indian provinces, possessed a right to reconsider their constitutional position.
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