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No. 12.-P.—The following Proclamations issued by the Rajpramukhs of the Unions of Patiala and East Punjab States, Saurashtra, Travancore-Cochin, Rajasthan and Madhya Bharat and the Rulers of the Hyderabad, Mysore and Jammu and Kashmir States are published for general information:—

with the inauguration of the new Constitution for the whole of India now being framed by the Constituent Assembly of India, the Government of India Act, 1935, which now governs the constitutional relationship between this State and the Dominion of India, will stand repealed;

, in the best interests of the State of Patiala and East Punjab States, which is closely linked with the rest of India by a community of interests in the economic, political and other fields, it is desirable that the constitutional relationship established between this State and the Dominion of India, should not only be continued as between this State and the contemplated Union of India but further strengthened, and the Constitution of India as drafted by the Constituent Assembly of India, which includes duly appointed representatives of this State, provides a suitable basis for doing so;

I now hereby declare and direct:

That the Constitution of India shortly to be adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India shall be the Constitution for the Patiala and East Punjab States as for the other parts of India and shall be enforced as such in accordance with the tenor of its provisions;

That the provision of the said Constitution shall, as from the date of its commencement, supersede and abrogate all other constitutional provisions inconsistent therewith which are at present in force in this State.