Practicing Success
According to the Cabinet Mission plan, how many seats were allotted to the Princely States in the Constituent Assembly? |
50 75 79 93 |
93 |
The correct answer is Option 4- 93 The Princely States were allotted a minimum of 93 seats in the Constituent Assembly. According to this plan: Each Province and each Princely State or group of States were allotted seats proportional to their respective population roughly in the ratio of 1:10,00,000. As a result the Provinces (that were under direct British rule) were to elect 292 members while the Princely States were allotted a minimum of 93 seats. The seats in each Province were distributed among the three main communities, Muslims, Sikhs and general, in proportion to their respective populations. Members of each community in the Provincial Legislative Assembly elected their own representatives by the method of proportional representation with single transferable vote. The method of selection in the case of representatives of Princely States was to be determined by consultation. |