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    The June 3rd Plan outlined the process for transferring power and partitioning India. It was drafted by V.P. Menon and edited by Nehru after Mountbatten rejected the initial plan. Mountbatten then took the new plan to London where it was approved with no changes in just five minutes. The key points of the plan included provisions for the provincial assemblies of Punjab and Bengal to vote on division, a referendum in NWFP, and allowing Sindh and Baluchistan to decide whether to join the new or existing constituent assemblies.

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    The June 3rd Plan outlined the process for transferring power and partitioning India. It was drafted by V.P. Menon and edited by Nehru after Mountbatten rejected the initial plan. Mountbatten then took the new plan to London where it was approved with no changes in just five minutes. The key points of the plan included provisions for the provincial assemblies of Punjab and Bengal to vote on division, a referendum in NWFP, and allowing Sindh and Baluchistan to decide whether to join the new or existing constituent assemblies.

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    The June 3rd Plan outlined the process for transferring power and partitioning India. It was drafted by V.P. Menon and edited by Nehru after Mountbatten rejected the initial plan. Mountbatten then took the new plan to London where it was approved with no changes in just five minutes. The key points of the plan included provisions for the provincial assemblies of Punjab and Bengal to vote on division, a referendum in NWFP, and allowing Sindh and Baluchistan to decide whether to join the new or existing constituent assemblies.

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    The June 3rd Plan outlined the process for transferring power and partitioning India. It was drafted by V.P. Menon and edited by Nehru after Mountbatten rejected the initial plan. Mountbatten then took the new plan to London where it was approved with no changes in just five minutes. The key points of the plan included provisions for the provincial assemblies of Punjab and Bengal to vote on division, a referendum in NWFP, and allowing Sindh and Baluchistan to decide whether to join the new or existing constituent assemblies.

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    June 3rd Plan

    When all of Mountbatten’s efforts to keep India united failed, he asked Ismay to chalk
    out a plan for the transfer of power and the division of the country. It was decided that
    none of the Indian parties would view it before the plan was finalized.

    The plan was finalized in the Governor’s Conference in April 1947, and was then sent
    to Britain in May where the British Government approved it.

    However, before the announcement of the plan, Nehru who was staying with
    Mountbatten as a guest in his residence at Simla, had a look at the plan and rejected it.
    Mountbatten then asked V. P. Menon, the only Indian in his personal staff, to present a
    new plan for the transfer of power. Nehru edited Menon’s formula and then
    Mountbatten himself took the new plan to London, where he got it approved without
    any alteration. Attlee and his cabinet gave the approval in a meeting that lasted not
    more than five minutes. In this way, the plan that was to decide the future of the Indo-
    Pak Sub-continent was actually authored by a Congress-minded Hindu and was

    approved by Nehru himself.


    Mountbatten came back from London on May 31, and on June 2 met seven Indian
    leaders. These were Nehru, Patel, Kriplalani, Quaid-i-Azam, Liaquat, Nishtar and
    Baldev Singh. After these leaders approved the plan, Mountbatten discussed it with
    Gandhi and convinced him that it was the best plan under the circumstances. The plan
    was made public on June 3, and is thus known as the June 3rd Plan.

    The following were the main clauses of this Plan:

     The Provincial Legislative Assemblies of Punjab and Bengal were to meet in two
    groups, i.e., Muslim majority districts and non-Muslim majority districts. If any of
    the two decided in favor of the division of the province, then the Governor
    General would appoint a boundary commission to demarcate the boundaries of the
    province on the basis of ascertaining the contiguous majority areas of Muslims
    and non-Muslims.
     The Legislative Assembly of Sindh (excluding its European Members) was to
    decide either to join the existing Constituent Assembly or the New Constituent
    Assembly.
     In order to decide the future of the North West Frontier Province, a referendum
    was proposed. The Electoral College for the referendum was to be the same as the
    Electoral College for the provincial legislative assembly in 1946.

     Baluchistan was also to be given the option to express its opinion on the issue.
     If Bengal decided in favor of partition, a referendum was to be held in the Sylhet
    District of Assam to decide whether it would continue as a part of Assam, or be
    merged with the new province of East Bengal.

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