166 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
On May 16, 1946, the Cabinet Mission for the final solution of the Indian deadlock, anounced their scheme in the form of a ‘State Papers’ which contemplated a Formal Union of India with three groups of Provinces, a plan for Interim Government, and the formation of Constituent Assembly, the members of which were to be elected as a communal basis by the Provincial Legislatures and the representatives of the States joining the Union. The State Paper, however, had no reference to the demands of the Scheduled Castes as put forth by Dr. Ambedkar.’ [1]
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar made strenuous efforts to secure the Constitutional Rights in the proposed Constitution for the Scheduled Castes. All these are depicted in the following documents which are self explanatory—Editors.
1 : Jatav; Dr. Ambedkar’s Role in National Movement, Pp 184-185.