Evening star., 1946-06-23
Nehru Speeds 10 Join
Congress Party Action
On independence Plan
FinuI Resolution Will Be
Adopted Today, President
Of AII-Indio Group Says
BY the ASsocia.ed Press

NEW DELHI, June 22.-Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru arrived by
Automobile at an air field near
RaWalpindi in Northern India
tonight, news dispatches said
and emplaned Immediately for
a 425-mile flight to New Delhi
for a critical meeting tomorrow
of the All-India Congress Party
working committee.
Final action was promised at the
meeting on the British proposal for
an interim Indian government.
Nehru, president-elect of the Con-
gress Party. arrived in Rawalpinh
from Uri, Kashmir, where he had
been detained for defying an order
denying him entry into Kashmir
state. He left Uri on instructions
from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
Congress president, agreeing to drop
Temporarily his dispute with Kash-
mir authorities.
Final Resolution Tomorrow.
On the eve of the committees
meeting Azad announced that it had
almost concluded its deliberations"
and that the final resolution will
be adopted tomorrow"
The Working Committee on Thurs
day announced it had broken off
its deliberations because of Nehru,s
arrest. Nehru is the president-des-
ignate of the congress.
Azad gave no hint as to what
reply the committee would make to
Viceroy Lord Wavell, who had asked
that a decision be reached by June
% on acceptance of a 14-man cabi-
net to rule India while constituent
assembly drafts a charter of inde-
pendence for this huge sub-conti-
nent's 100000, 900 people.
1t was announced officially, how
ever, that Premier H. K. Mahtab of
Orissa province. one of the congress
leaders invited to join the govern
ment, had refused to accept for
personal reasons"
Moslems Indicate Support.
No formal action has been taken
by the Moslem League, chief rival
of the predominantly Hindu Con-
gress Party, on the British proposal,
but its spokesmen have indicated
they favor the plan The league
and the congress party were given
five members each in the cabinet,
with the remaining four represent
ing minority groups
(The New Delhi radio, heard in
London, said the United Sikh
Board, representing the 1000 900
Sikhs of India, voted Saturday to
reject the proposal for an interim
government. Wavell had named
Sardar Baldev Singh, develop
ment minister in the Punjab
coalition government, as the Sikh
representative to the interim
government.
CTarah Singh, leader of one
Sikh faction, said earlier this
week that the interim govern
ment proposal would reduce In
dia's Sikhs to serfdom.)
Insists on Returning Later.
Nehru, whose arrest set of strikes
and demonstrations in widely scat
tered major Indian cities that cost
at least two lives, told Azad that
lin obedience to the direction OF
the Working Committee / am pre-
pared to return Immediately on the
understanding that come back to
Kashmir later"
Azad, after comforting with Mo-
handas K. Gandhi, the party's
spiritual leader, notified Nehru that
I'VE are all of the opinion that
your presepce here is essential
above everything else
Nehru had sought to enter the
mountainous princely state OF
Kashmir to arrange for the defense
Of Sheikh Abdullah, who is await
ing trial in connection with agita-
ton for the abdication Of the ruling
Maharaja.