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 The Government of India hereby concur in the above Covenant and guarantee all its provisions. In confirmation whereof, Mr. Vapal Pangunni Menon, Adviser to the Government of India in the Ministry of States, appends his signature on behalf and with the authority of the Government of India.

WHEREAS it is expedient that the Covenant entered into by us, the Rulers of Gwalior, Indore and certain other States in Central India, for the constitution of the United State of Madhya Bharat, should be modified for the purpose and in the manner hereinafter appearing:—

WE, the said Rulers, do hereby, with the concurrence of the Government of India, enter into the following Supplementary Covenant:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in the original Covenant, the Constitution of India adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India shall be the Constitution for the United State of Madhya Bharat, and shall be enforced as such in accordance with the tenor of its provisions; and accordingly all references in the original Covenant to the Constitution framed thereunder shall be construed as references to the Constitution of India.

In Article X of the original Covenant—

(a) for paragraph (1), the following paragraph shall be substituted and shall be deemed always to have been substituted, namely:—

(b) in paragraph (3) for the words beginning with the words "Upon the formation" and ending with the words "assent of the Rajpramukh", the words "Until the commencement of the Constitution of India" shall be substituted, and the words "Or as the case may be, the ConstitutionConstituent [sic] Assembly" shall be omitted.

Schedule III to the original Covenant shall be omitted.