Page:White Paper on Indian States (1950).pdf/142

 objective of the Congress, is for the whole of India, inclusive of the States, for the integrity and unity of India must be maintained in freedom as it has been maintained in subjection. The only kind of Federation that can be acceptable to the Congress is one in which the States participate as free units, enjoying the same measure of democratic freedom as the rest: of India'.

I am sure the House will agree with me when I say that the provisions which we are now placing before the House embody in them full achievement of that objective".