Vol. 9 · pages 401–405

372 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES APPENDIX XV (6) BIHAR Name of Constituency Contested or Uncontested Party Ticket of Successful Candidate Distribution of Votes Polled by Successful Candidate Votes Polled by Unsuccessful Candidates Total Scheduled Caste Votes Scheduled Caste Votes Hindu Votes Total (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) East Bihar … … … Contested Non-Congress 2,471 Nil 2,471 519 5,443 South Gaya … … … Unopposed Congress — — — — — N wada … … … Contested Congress 3,079 Nil 3,079 1,629 10,449 East Central Shahabad … Unopposed Non-Congress — — — — — West Gopalganj … … Unopposed Non-Congress — — — — — North Bettiah … … … Unopposed Congress — — — — — East Muzaffarpur Sadr … … Unopposed Congress — — — — — Darbhanga Sadr … … Unopposed Congress — — — — — South East Samastipur … … Unopposed Congress — — — — — South Sadr Monghyr … … Unopposed Congress — — — — — Madhipura … … … Contested Congress 70 1,688 1,75 1,700 1,770 South West Purnea … … Contested Congress 2,040 2,878 4,918 1,669 3,709 Girdih-cum-Chatra … … Unopposed Congress — — — — — North East-Palamau … … Contested Congress 3,465 3,419 6,884 626 4,091 Central Manbhum … … Contested Non-Congress 2,539 Nil 2,539 1,973 5,379 Total of Seheduled-Caste Votes secured by Congress Candidates 8,654 Total ... 30,841 Total of Scheduled-Caste Votes … … … … … … 30,811 Total of Scheduled-Caste Votes secured by Congress Candidates … … 8,654 Scheduled-Caste Votes secured by Non-Congress Candidates … … … 22,187

373 WHAT CONGRESS AND GANDHI HAVE DONE TO THE UNTOUCHABLES : APPENDIX XV APPENDIX XV (7) C. P. & BERAR Name of Constituency Contested or Uncontested Party Ticket of Successful Candidate Distribution of Votes Polled by Successful Candidate Votes Polled by Unsuccessful Candidates Total Scheduled- Caste VotesScheduled Caste Votes Hindu Votes Total (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) Nagpur City … … … Contested Non-Congress 7,796 Nil 7,796 3,787 9,088 Nagpur-Umrer … … Contested Non-Congress 3,667 Nil 3,667 2,774 6,323 Hinganghat-Wardha … … Contested Non-Congress 2,964 262 3,226 3,093 2,964 Chanda Brahmapuri … … Contested Non-Congress 5,133 Nil 5,133 1,764 5,590 Chhindwara-Sausar … … Contested Non-Congress 1,477 Nil 1,477 4,035 4,400 Jubbulpur-Patan … … Contested Congress 473 2,017 2,490 1,198 1,671 Saugor-Khurai … … Contested Congress 2,986 Nil 2,986 1,417 5,147 Damoh-Hatta … … … Contested Congress 3,056 259 3,315 958 4,014 Narsinghpur-Gadarwara … … Contested Congress 1,023 95 1,118 480 1,503 Raipur … … … … Contested Congress 3,856 Nil 3,856 1,332 9,361 Baloda Bazar … … … Contested Congress 8,113 Nil 8,113 4,451 17,551 Bilaspur … … … … Contested Non-Congress 1,900 Nil 1,900 1,655 15,348 Mungeli … … … … Contested Non-Congress 5,357 Nil 5,357 4,730 14,045 Jangir … … … … Contested Non-Congress 2,411 Nil 2,411 3,299 17,188 Drug … … … … Unopposed Congress — — — — — Bhandara-Sakoli … … Contested Non-Congress 7,916 Nil 7,916 5,197 0,309 Ellichpur-Daryapur-Melghat … Contested Non-Congress 1,697 Nil 1,697 3,086 2,532 Akola-Balapur … … … Contested Non-Congress 1,823 Nil 1,823 1,726 3,203 Yeotmal Darwha … … … Contested Non-Congress 1,150 Nil 1,150 864 1,329 Chikhli-Mehkar … … … Contested Non-Congress 2,194 Nil 2,194 2,164 3,295 Total of Scheduled-Caste Votes secured by Congress Candidates 19,507 Total ... 134,861 Total of Scheduled Caste Votes … … … … … … 134,861 Total of Scheduled-Caste Votes secured by Congress Candidates … … 19,507 Scheduled-Caste Votes secured by Non-Congress Candidates … … … 115,354

374 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES APPENDIX XV (8) A SSAM Name of Constituency Contested or Uncontested Party Ticket of Successful Candidate Distribution of Votes Polled by Successful Candidate Votes Polled by Unsuccessful Candidates Total Scheduled Caste Vote PolledScheduled- Caste Votes Hindu Votes Total (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (61 (7) (8) Kamrup Sadr (South), General Contested Congress Nil 4,832 4,832 3,665 1,841 Nowgong (North East), General Contested Non- Congress 1,596 Nil 1,596 3,045 2,226 Jorhat (North), General … Contested Congress 457 495 952 371 828 Sunamganj, General … … Unopposed Congress — — — — — Habiganj (North), General … Contested Congress 4,863 Nil 4,863 4,397 10,356 Karimganj (East), General … Contested Non-Congress 3,252 Nil 3,252 1,119 10,252 Silchar, General … … Contested Non-Congress 2,108 Nil 2,108 2,197 2,254 Total of Scheduled-Caste Votes secured by Congress Candidates 5,320 Total ... 27,757 Total of Scheduled Caste Votes … … … … … … 27,757 Total of Scheduled-Caste Votes secured by Congress Candidates … … 5,320 Scheduled-Caste Votes secured by Non-Congress Candidates … … … 22,437

375 WHAT CONGRESS AND GANDHI HAVE DONE TO THE UNTOUCHABLES : APPENDIX XV APPENDIX XV (9) ORISSA Name of Constituency Contested or Uncontested Party Ticket of Successful Candidate Distribution of Votes Polled by Successful Candidate Votes Potted by Unsuccessful Candidates Total Scheduled- Caste Votes PolledScheduled- Caste Votes Hindu Votes Total (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) North Cuttack Sadr … … Unopposed Non-Congress — — — — — East Jajpur … … … Contested Congress 958 Nil 958 571 4,808 North Puri Sadr … … Contested Congress 3,416 602 4,018 339 3,755 East Bargarh … … … Unopposed Non-Congress — — — — — West Bhadrak … … … Contested Congress 1,504 Nil 1,504 734 5,049 Aska Surada … … … Contested Congress Nil 917 917 1,402 973 Total of Scheduled-Caste Votes secured by Congress Candidates 5,878 Total ... 14,585 Total of Scheduled-Caste Votes … … … … … … 14,585 Total of Scheduled-Caste Votes scoured by Congress Candidates … … 5,878 Scheduled-Caste Votes secured by Non-Congress Candidates … … … 8,707

376 APPENDIX XVI THE WAVELL PLAN (i) White Paper presented to Parliament on 14th June 1945 by the Secretary of State for India, containing His Majesty’s Government’s Proposal relating to the Government of India. 1. During the recent visit of Field-Marshal Viscount Wavell to this country His Majesty’s Government reviewed with him a number of problems and discussed particularly the present political situation in India. 2. Members will be aware that since the offer by His Majesty’s Government to India in March 1942 there has been no further progress towards the solution of the Indian constitutional problem. 3. As was then stated, the working out of India’s new constitutional system is a task which can only be carried through by the Indian peoples themselves. 4. While His Majesty’s Government are at all times most anxious to do their utmost to assist the Indians in the working out of a new constitutional settlement, it would be a contradiction in terms to-speak of the imposition by this country of self-governing institutions upon an unwilling India. Such a thing is not possible, nor could we accept the responsibility for enforcing such institutions at the very time when we were, by its purpose, withdrawing from all control of British Indian affairs. 5. The main constitutional position remains therefore as it was. The offer of March 1942 stands in its entirety without change or qualification. His Majesty’s Government still hope that the political leaders in India may be able to come to an agreement as to the procedure whereby India’s permanent future form of government can be determined. 6. His Majesty’s Government are, however, most anxious to make any contribution that is practicable to the breaking of the political deadlock in India. While that deadlock lasts not only political but social and economic progress is being hampered. 7. The Indian administration, over-burdened with the great tasks laid upon it by the war against Japan and by the planning for the post-war period, is further strained by the political tension that exists. 8. All that is so urgently required to be done for agricultural and industrial development and for the peasants and workers of