![]() ![]() Of it.” There was nothing else Mountbatten could do, at least not in the face India, while allowing those areas to secede which did not choose to remain part Up the country into several units, my Plan would retain the essential unity of Whereas the Plan approved by His Majesty’s Government would break Impression that Jinnah was reconciled to the idea of partition of the PunjabĪnd Bengal. “I reminded Lord Mountbatten that he himself had gained the The only obstacle, as always, was Jinnah. Only way to ensure both the early demission of power, and as a result, obtainĬongress approval. Now urged the Viceroy to think about Partition seriously, because it was the Modifying it according to what he had heard from both Mountbatten and Nehru. Me before, but I beg of you to please listen to me now.’” VP repeated his Plan, One now retrieve this situation? “I told him, ‘Sir, you have never listened to He gone ahead with the conference of 17 May anyway! The question was, how did Had shown the plan to Jawaharlal, he said. Was disaster.” Still, Mountbatten tried to brazen it out. ![]() When I Got to Viceregal Lodge, Lady Mountbatten was there, in Menon met his stringent deadline, presenting the Menon Plan, which would play midwife to India’s birth as a free nation. With his initial plans for an independent India in tatters, a desperate Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, turned to his senior-most Indian civil servant, Vappala Pangunni Menon- or ‘VP’-giving him a single night to devise an alternative, coherent and workable plan for independence. ![]()
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