ABSTRACT
The League should be compelled, the Congress told the viceroy, to agree to participate in the assembly or be made to get down from the bus. Jinnah had a solid answer to this complaint. The viceroy now saw that the situation had reached a dangerous crossroad and, despite the British government being blind to it, a decisive step must be taken. The British had asked two representatives each from the Congress and the League and one from the Sikh community, Sardar Baldev Singh. The Congress Working Committee met on December 22 and adopted a long resolution which said that the British government had deviated from the plan but the Congress still accepted it with its interpretation. The announcement also said that the government had decided to send Lord Mountbatten as viceroy of India and charge him with the task of winding up British rule in India within the prescribed time.
