introduction of Mount Bettan
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He was the last English viceroy of India.
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Mountbatten landed on the PLAN WIDELY soil of India on March 22, 1947. Mr. Attlee had instructed him to see that power was ENDORSED transferred before June 30, 1948. Immediately after the swearing-in ceremony on (JUNE 3, 1947) March 24, 1947, Mountbatten set to the task assigned to him. He had a series of interviews with topmost leaders of the major parties and made them agree to the principle of partition of India to some extent. Gandhijis’ alternative plan to hand over power to Jinnah at the Centre and present his Pakistan plan for acceptance to his people before the transfer of power was appreciated by Mountbatten but rejected by all the members of the Congress Working Committee except Badhshah Khan.
Thus Gandhiji was cleared out of the way. Thereafter the Viceroy decided to play the cards. He proceeded to England in May, 1947 to seek the approval of His Majesty’s Government of his proposed plan of resolving Indian political deadlock. On June 3, 1947, immediately after his return to India, Lord mountbatten announced his plan for solving the ‘present impasse’. Before the plan was publicized, Lord Mountbattan had obtained the consent of the Congress and Sikh leaders and also of Mr. M.A. Jinnah. Maulana Azad was, however, vehemently opposed to the plan. In his words, “The publication of this statement meant the end of all hopes for preserving the unity of India.
This was the first time that the Cabinet Mission Plan was discarded and partition accepted officially. It will interest the reader if we make a casual reference of Lady Mountbatten’s significant role in bringing round the leaders of the Congress to agree to her husband’s plan. It the words of Dr. Ishwari Prasad, “By remarkable adaptability of character and pleasing manners, she won the hearts of all the greatest adversaries of the land…”. The Congress Socialist Party deprecated its acceptance as an act of surrender.