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rights of minorities and minorities should be able to live free from fear.” This remains the view of His Majesty’s Government, which found expression in paragraph 4 of the Cabinet Mission’s Statement of May 25th. I do not consider that His Majesty’s Government would be wise to make at this stage any further pronouncement elaborating what was said in that paragraph.
Your final request is that in the Interim Government the Scheduled Castes should have at least 2 representatives who should be nominees of the Scheduled Castes Federation. I regret that I cannot hold out any hope of this being possible.
I was very glad to see that you had been elected to the Constituent Assembly.
C. R. A.
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