...proceeds, the administration of India has to be carried on. We attach the greatest importance therefore to the setting up at once of an interim Government...having the support of the major political parties. It is essential during the interim period that there should be the maximum of co-operation in carrying...

...the Plan. The Plan itself declared that it attached "the greatest importance ... to the setting-up at once of an interim Government having the support of the major political parties." In the statement issued by the Cabinet Delegation and Viceroy on the 16th June, 1946, it was recognised...