A diary entry by Rajagopalachari (a Congress member of the interim government and participant in the deliberations) states that Gandhi’s ‘illconceived plan of solving the present difficulties’ was ‘objected to by everybody and scotched’.69 If Azad was among ‘the several members of the working committee’ with whom Gandhi talked, his rejection of the Gandhi scheme—or silence over it—would have conflicted with his word to Mountbatten that it offered the best hope of stopping bloodshed.
