Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru (SELECTED WORKS OF JAWAHARLAL NEHRU SECOND SERIES)

From February to May 1947, the months covered by this volume, internal dissensions continued as before. While the Muslim League condemned the Cabinet Mission plan as a failure, asked for the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly and persisted in its efforts to obtain a separate Pakistan, the
Congress sought the removal of the League representatives from the Interim Government as the League had refused to participate in the Assembly.

On the eve of the transfer of power, there were a myriad other problems: the control of communal feelings, the efficiency of the Congress organization, the future objectives of a free India, the role of the army, the framing of independent defence and foreign policies.