Acceptance Of Mountbatten Plan
The main purpose of the mountbatten plan was the partition of india.
Acceptance of mountbatten plan. Acceptance of mountbatten plan of june 1947 the representatives of the hindu majority districts of the punjab led by dr. On behalf of the sikhs baldev singh accepted the principle of partition as laid down in the plan. Answer the congress accepted the mountbatten plan due to the following reasons i the muslim league had obstructed the smooth functioning of the interim government earlier. Following are three important reasons behind the acceptance of the mountbatten plan.
So it was difficult for the congress to accept it as an ally in the government. The experience of working with the muslim league in the interim government had taught the congress that it would be impossible to work with them and that it could not have a joint administration with the league. He put up his plan on june 3 1947 which included partition of india. Lord mountbatten worked out a detailed plan for the transfer of power to the indian people the salient features of the mountbatten plan were as follows 1 muslim dominated areas may be separated to form a dominion in that case such a domination would be constituted by a partition of bengal and the punjab.
Iv muslim leagues acceptance june 2 1947. Sylhet mainly chose to merge in east bengal. He hoped that the situation in india and the problems arising political and economic as well as communal would be solved. On june 3 1947 lord mountbatten put forward his plan which outlined the steps for the solution of indias political problem.
Not accepting it would amount to even more hatred and sectarian violence. The muslim league accepted the plan on june 9 1947. Kripalani stated that the acceptance of the mountbatten plan would be a settlement. However the plan gave jinnah no better pakistan than the one which he had described as mutilated moth eaten and truncated.
Hence the indian national congress accepted the mountbatten plan. The gruesome communal violence that had engulfed the country at that point of time had convinced the political leadership that partition was inevitable. Gopichand bhargava and bengal led by dr. Following the mountbatten plan june 3 1947 india was made free but by partitioning india the new state of pakistan was created.