Question

give any two salient features of Wavell's plan

Answer 1

• Formation of a new Executive Council at the centre in which all the members except the Viceroy and the Commander in Chief would be Indian.

• All portfolios except Defence were to be under the control of Indian members.

• In the Proposed Executive Council which was to have 14 members, the Muslims who constituted only about 25 % of the total population were given the right to be over represented by selecting 6 representatives.

The Congress while objecting the demand asserted its rights to select the representative of any community, including Muslims, as the Congress nominees to the Council.