Question

The Shimla Conference for Free India, 1945 was declared a failure by Wavell on 14th July, 1945. The reason for the failure was_ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

A. Jinnah insisted that two Muslim Members of Council should be nominated by the Muslim League.
B. Jinnah insisted that three Muslim Members of Council should be nominated by the Muslim League.
C. Jinnah insisted that all five Muslim Members of Council should be nominated by the Muslim League.
D. Jinnah insisted that at least four Muslim Members of Council should be nominated by the Muslim League.

Answer 1

Hint: Lord Linlithgow was succeeded by Lord Wavell as Governor-General in October, 1943, made an exit plan from the current impasse of the deadlock in India. He went to England for meetings in March 1945. He broadcast to the citizens of India the recommendations of the British Government to resolve the deadlock in India on fourteenth June which is called Wavell Plan.

Complete answer:
Ruler Wavell welcomed a gathering of 21 Indian Political pioneers in Shimla to examine the arrangement of Wavell Plan. The Wavell Plan met to concur for Indian self-government which fused separate portrayal to Muslims and reduced majority powers for both communities in their majority regions.Negotiations were stuck when it came down to the selection of Muslim delegates. Jinnah said that only Muslims from the Muslim League ought to be spoken to the Executive Council on the grounds that lone Muslim League has option to speak to the Muslims of India while Congress said that they reserved no privilege to nominate any Muslim in the Executive committee. Wavell had offered spot to 6 Muslims in the Executive Council of 14, and British had given it the intensity of Veto to any protected proposition which was not to its greatest advantage. Yet, Muslims spoke to just 25% of Indian Population. Consequently, these irrational requests were dismissed by Congress. The Muslim League didn't yield and Wavell dropped the arrangement.

Hence, the correct answer is option (C).

Note:Two significant occasions occurred in the wake of the Shimla conference which made other plans conceivable. With the acquiescence of Japan on August 15, 1945, the Second World War reached a conclusion, and the Labor Party came to control in Britain. Lord Wavell visited London, and on re-visitation of India, declared on September 19, 1942, that the British Government was all the while working "in the spirit of the Cripps Offer of 1942" and proposed to meet a constitution-making body. Electoral races were announced. Indian governmental issues again entered a phase of intense excitement, interminable negotiations and bitter controversy.