Dalai Lama apologises for saying Nehru opposed Gandhi's wish to make Jinnah PM
India TodayThis week, the Dalai Lama said Mahatma Gandhi was willing to give Muhammad Ali Jinnah the Indian prime minister's post, but that Jawaharlal Nehru refused. On Wednesday, while speaking about Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah, the Dalai Lama said he thought it was "a little bit self-centred attitude of Pandit Nehru that he should be the prime minister.Mahatma Gandhiji's thinking, if it had materialised, then India, Pakistan would have been united". MAGAZINE | A Tibetan dilemma Senior Congress leader Manish Tewari said, "With great respect his Holiness Dalai Lama is wrong that Nehru was self-centred, and therefore opposed Gandhi's suggestion of making Jinnah Prime Minister of India. Both Nehru and VP Menon separately pointed out to Viceroy Mountbatten that Gandhi had made the offer of Prime Ministership to Jinnah on earlier occasions as well, and that Jinnah had not accepted it on those earlier occasions for his own reasons.Not only Nehru but many members of the Congress Working Committee also did not endorse Gandhi's suggestion, finally."
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