The determinants of the geopolitical destiny of the Northeast India were determined in the fateful year 1946, as the British Cabinet Mission Plan offered the notorious Group C arrangement. This plan was aimed at creating an administrative union of Assam and the Muslim dominated province of Bengal, a move that would have inevitably pulled the whole of the region to East Pakistan after Partition. Though the central leadership of Congress originally welcomed this framework, a strong opposition movement started in Assam, to oppose the grouping clause saying that it contravened the principle of provincial autonomy. This firm resistance which was forcefully advocated by Gopinath Bordoloi with the help of Mahatma Gandhi virtually destroyed the plan of grouping and blocked the secession of the eastern frontier. This historic statement supporting the integrity of India was officially accepted in 1999 when the then government under the leadership of Vajpayee awarded him the highest civilian award in the country the Bharat Ratna, posthumously.
Seema Sanghosh English: January 2026
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