[rtitimes] Crisp Mission (1946) -Vs- Congress Mission (2011)

What is difference between the Mission Congress (Manish Tiwari+ Abhishek Manu Singhvi+ Kabil Sibal), and British Government's Crisp Mission, when they called Anna Hazare's movement as blackmailing of the Government. And when Kapil Sibal claimed that a poor boy cannot go with the help of Lokpal to school, ignoring the important fact that if the corruption could be checked effectively, poorness of the citizen can also be wiped out, and this way Lokpal Institution can help a poor boy to go to school. Mahatma Gandhi refused to accept the following proposal, which was given to Indian Leaders to divide Indians to Rule India through Indians.   http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420330a.html STATEMENT AND DRAFT DECLARATION BY HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT WITH CORRESPONDENCE AND RESOLUTIONS CONNECTED THEREWITH (Sir Stafford Cripps' Mission to India) Draft Declaration for Discussion with Indian Leaders Published 30th March, 1942 India White Paper, London, 1942. The conclusions of the British War Cabinet as set out below are those which Sir Stafford Cripps has taken with him for discussion with the Indian Leaders and the question as to whether they will be implemented will depend upon the outcome of these discussions which are now taking place. His Majesty's Government, having considered the anxieties expressed in this country and in India as to the fulfillment of the promises made in regard to the future of India, have decided to lay down in precise and clear terms the steps which they propose shall be taken for the earliest possible realisation of self-government in India. The object is the creation of a new Indian Union which shall constitute a Dominion, associated with the United Kingdom and the other Dominions by a common allegiance to the Crown, but equal to them in every respect, in no way subordinate in any aspect of its domestic or external affairs. His Majesty's Government therefore make the following declaration:- (a) Immediately upon the cessation of hostilities, steps shall be taken to set up in India, in the manner described hereafter, an elected body charged with the task of framing a new Constitution for India. (b) Provision shall be made, as set out below, for the participation of the Indian States in the constitution-making body. (c) His Majesty's Government undertake to accept and implement forthwith the Constitution so framed subject only to:- (i) the right of any Province of British India that is not prepared to accept the new Constitution to retain its present constitutional position, provision being made for its subsequent accession if it so decides. With such non-acceding Provinces, should they so desire, His Majesty's Government will be prepared to agree upon a new Constitution, giving them the same full status as the Indian Union, and arrived at by a procedure analogous to that here laid down. (ii) the signing of a Treaty which shall be negotiated between His Majesty's Government and the constitution-making body. This Treaty will cover all necessary matters arising out of the complete transfer of responsibility from British to Indian hands; it will make provision, in accordance with the undertakings given by His Majesty's Government, for the protection of racial and religious minorities; but will not impose any restriction on the power of the Indian Union to decide in the future its relationship to the other Member States of the British Commonwealth. Whether or not an Indian State elects to adhere to the Constitution, it will be necessary to negotiate a revision of its Treaty arrangements, so far as this may be required in the new situation. (d) the constitution-making body shall be composed as follows, unless the leaders of Indian opinion in the principal communities agree upon some other form before the end of hostilities:- Immediately upon the result being known of the provincial elections which will be necessary at the end of hostilities, the entire membership of the Lower Houses of the Provincial Legislatures shall, as a single electoral college, proceed to the election of the constitution-making body by the system of proportional representation. This new body shall be in number about one-tenth of the number of the electoral college. Indian States shall be invited to appoint representatives in the same proportion to their total population as in the case of the representatives of British India as a whole, and with the same powers as the British Indian members. (e) During the critical period which now faces India and until the new Constitution can be framed His Majesty's Government must inevitably bear the responsibility for and retain control and direction of the defence of India as part of their world war effort, but the task of organising to the full the military, moral and material resources of India must be the responsibility of the Government of India with the co-operation of the peoples of India. His Majesty's Government desire and invite the immediate and effective participation of the leaders of the principal sections of the Indian people in the counsels of their country, of the Commonwealth and of the United Nations. Thus they will be enabled to give their active and constructive help in the discharge of a task which is vital and essential for the future freedom of India. This HTML document was created by GT_HTML 6.0d 09/16/97 7:54 AM.   Subsequently Britishers trapped Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, who motivated the other Congress Leaders except Mahatma Gandhi to accept the proposal of Cabinet Mission (1946), one of its member was said Sir Stafford Cripps. Today India is not governed in accordance with the aspirations, requirements and necessity of Indians, and Leaders like Raja, Koda, are produced because we entered in an agreement with British Government, compromising with the sovereignty of Democratic Indians.      Posted on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, By Milap Choraria [rti-times] "Corruption-Culture" of NEHRU Dynasty : A historical fact http://awareness-2009.blogspot.com/2009/12/rti-times-corruption-culture-of-nehru.html\ Cripps' mission From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Cripps mission was an attempt in late March 1942 by the British government to secure Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II. The mission was headed by Sir Stafford Cripps, a senior left-wing politician and government minister in the War Cabinet of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.  Background With the Battle of Britain and the entry of the U.S., World War II was becoming increasingly grave and critical for the future survival of Britain and European nations. The British government desired to enlist the full cooperation and support of Indian political leaders in order to recruit more Indians into the British Indian Army, which fought Imperial Japan in South East Asia and Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in Europe and North Africa alongside the British Army and its Australian, New Zealander, and American allies. In 1939 the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, had declared India a belligerent state on the side of the allies without consulting Indian political leaders or the elected provincial representatives. This caused considerable resentment in India and provoked the resignation en masse of elected Congress Party Provincial Governments, giving rise to the prospect of public revolt and political disorder in India. The British feared a destabilizing revolt in India which could be fatal to their campaign against the Japanese, as well as detrimental to obtaining much-needed resources and manpower to fight the war in Europe as well. Debate over cooperation or protest The Congress was divided upon its response to India's entry into World War II. Angry over the decision made by the Viceroy of India, some Congress leaders favored launching a popular revolt against the British despite the gravity of the war in Europe, which threatened Britain's own freedom. Others, such as Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, advocated offering an olive branch to the British — supporting them in this crucial time in hope that the gesture would be reciprocated with independence after the war. India's and Congress' major leader, Mohandas Gandhi, was opposed to Indian involvement in the war as he would not morally endorse a war — he also suspected British intentions, believing that the British were not sincere about Indian aspirations for freedom. But Rajagopalachari, along with support from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Maulana Azad and Jawaharlal Nehru held talks with Cripps and offered full support in return for immediate self-government, and eventual independence. The leader of the Muslim League, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, supported the war effort and condemned the Congress policy. Insisting on a separate Muslim state, he resisted Congress calls for pan-Indian cooperation and immediate independence. Failure of the mission Upon his arrival in India, Cripps held talks with Indian leaders. There is some confusion over what Cripps had been authorised to offer India's nationalist politicians by Churchill and Leo Amery (His Majesty's Secretary of State for India), and he also faced hostility from the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow. He began by offering India full Dominion status at the end of the war, with the chance to secede from the Commonwealth and go for total independence. Privately, Cripps also promised to get rid of Linlithgow and grant India Dominion Status with immediate effect, reserving only the Defence Ministry for the British. However, in public he failed to present any concrete proposals for greater self-government in the short-term, other than a vague commitment to increase the number of Indian members of the Viceroy's Executive Council. Cripps spent much of his time in encouraging Congress leaders and Jinnah to come to a common, public arrangement in support of the war and government; however, the Congress leaders felt that whatever Cripps might say, his et with collective responsibility, or Indian control over Defence in wartime. They were also suspicious of an opt-out clause which Amery was political masters were not interested in granting the complete Indianisation of the Viceroy's Executive Council, its conversion into a Cabinrumoured to have offered the Muslim League in any putative Dominion arrangement. There was too little trust between the British and Congress by this stage, and both sides felt that the other was concealing its true plans. The Congress stopped talks with Cripps and, guided by Mohandas Gandhi, the national leadership demanded immediate self-government in return for war support. When the British remained unresponsive, Gandhi and the Congress began planning a major public revolt, the Quit India movement, which demanded immediate British withdrawal from India. As the Imperial Japanese Army advanced closer to India with the conquest of Burma, Indians perceived an inability upon the part of the British to defend Indian soil. This period concurred with the rise of the Indian National Army, led by Subhas Chandra Bose. The British response to the Quit India movement was to throw most of the Congress leadership in jail. Jinnah's Muslim League condemned the Quit India movement, participating in provincial governments as well as the legislative councils of the British Raj, and encouraging Muslims to participate in the war. With this limited cooperation from the Muslim League, the British were able to continue administering India for the duration of the war using officials and military personnel where Indian politicians could not be found. This would not prove to be feasible in the long-term, however. The long-term significance of the Cripps Mission only really became apparent in the aftermath of the war, as troops were demobilised and sent back home. Even Churchill recognised that there could be no retraction of the offer of Independence which Cripps had made, although by the end of the war Churchill was out of power and could only watch as the new Labour government gave India independence. This confidence that the British would soon leave was reflected in the readiness with which Congress politicians stood in the elections of 1945–6 and formed provincial governments.[1] In retrospect, this unsuccessful and badly-planned attempt to placate the Congress in return for temporary wartime support was the point at which the British departure from India became inevitable at the war's end.       TRUTH SHALL ALWAYS PREVAIL http://www.freelists.org/list/rtitimes Milap Choraria: National Convenor : Movement for Accountability to Public (MAP) http://milapchoraria.tripod.com/msp