Cripps Mission 1942, Wavell Plan 1945, Cabinet Mission 1946 (in Hindi)

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R K Shukla

About Cripps mission was completely failed The Mission failed because of the attitude of the conservative party. The government did not desire to share power with the Indians during the war. Cripps was also not completely free to negotiate with the Indians. Cripps blamed Gandhi and the congress leaders for the failure of his mission. Gandhi described the cripps mission, as a 'Post-dated cheque'. Wavell plan An abortive effort to solve the political deadlock in India was made in 1945. Lord wavell invited the leaders of all sections of political opinion. A conference was held at Simla. Discussions went on for about one month. The Wavell Plan, in itsessence, was the complete Indianisation of the Executive Council. The caste Hindus and Muslims were tobe represented on it on the basis ofparity. mahatma gandhiresented theuse of the words “caste Hindus”. The Muslim League clamoured for having the representation of the Muslim members of the Council. The Congress, being a national organisation, insisted on the nomination of its representatives from all the communities.The conference met with failure because neither the Congress nor the League was prepared to deviate from the stand taken by them. All of the British Government’s attempts to establish peace between the Congress and the Muslim League had failed. The results of the general elections held in 1945-46 served to underline the urgency to find a solution to the political deadlock, which was the result of non-cooperation between the two major parties. To end this, the British government sent a special mission of cabinet ministers to India. The mission consisted of Lord Pethic Lawrence, the Sescretary of State for India, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, and A. V. Alexander, the First Lord of the Admiralty.