why did Mountbatten chose 15th August for India Independence Day?
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How 15th August became India's Independence Day
The British parliament commanded Lord Mountbatten, the Viceroy of India, to transfer the governing powers to Indian leaders by June 30, 1948. According to C. Rajagopalachari, an Indian politician and independence activist, if Lord Mountbatten had waited till June 1948, there would have been no power left to transfer. That is why Mountbatten preponed the date to August 1947 and transferred all the governing powers. Mountbatten also claimed that by preponing the date, there will be no bloodshed or riot. It was a misplaced hope and later he admitted that “wherever colonial rule has ended, there has been bloodshed. That is the price you pay.” The British government presented the Indian Independence Bill in the British House of Commons on the basis of Lord Mountbatten's inputs. It was on July 4, 1947 that the bill got approved within a fortnight. This was the end of the British rule in India and on August 15, 1947, India got its independence but by establishing two Dominions, India and Pakistan. Mountbatten later also claimed that, “the date I chose came out of the blue. I chose it in reply to a question. I was determined to show I was master of the whole event. When they asked had we set a date, I knew it had to be soon. I hadn’t worked it out exactly then — I thought it had to be about August or September and I then went out to the 15th August. Why? Because it was the second anniversary of Japan’s surrender.” This year India will be celebrating its 73rd Independence Day. Every year Independence Day reminds us that freedom is not free and that was hard-earned by the freedom fighters and patriots paying for it with their efforts and even their lives.
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the answer is we got freedom in that fay