On Jawaharlal Nehru's appeal, the Panthic Board, at their meeting on 14 August 1946, while reiterating that the Cabinet Mission scheme was unjust to Sikhs, retracted their boycott of it. Baldev Singh joined the Cabinet headed by Jawaharlal Nehru as the Sikhs' nominee on 2 September 1946. That position had now to change. Baldev Singh brought about the change with tact and firmness. It is indeed our right to have our armed forces completely Indianised.
Nobody disputes that right.
Indianisation of the armed forces will now be speeded up at an accelerated pace, compatible with efficiency, and our only concern will be to maintain and better the excellence of the standard you yourselves have built up. It is nobody's desire that in achieving our objective we be unjust to them. They and others before them have contributed greatly in fashioning the steel that is the envy of others. I have every hope that their help and co-operation in the great task of Indianisation will be available now, as in the past. We shall value their talent and their co-operation as ever before.