Who among the following had seconded the resolution on partition in the meeting of All India Congress Committee held in New Delhi in 1947 ?

On 14 June 1947, the AICC meeting in New Delhi endorsed the partition plan (the June 3 Plan) through a resolution. Jawaharlal Nehru is usually credited with moving it, and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is recorded as the one who seconded it. So B is the answer.

• A) Govind Ballabh Pant: A senior Congress leader from the United Provinces and later UP's first Chief Minister, but not the seconder of this resolution.
• C) J.B. Kripalani: He was the Congress president at the time of the 1947 transition, but he is not the person recorded as seconding this resolution.
• D) Abul Kalam Azad: As Congress president he presided over the Congress leadership that negotiated the Cabinet Mission Plan, but he was opposed to partition and is not the seconder here.

The core concept is the Congress acceptance of partition in 1947 and the sequence of the June 3 Plan, Mountbatten's plan, and the Indian Independence Act 1947. For Mains, it helps in understanding how the Congress shifted from opposing partition to accepting it, a theme in GS-I modern history.

Trap: Candidates often confuse the mover, the seconder and the Congress president. Remember that Nehru moved the resolution and Patel seconded it, while the presidency was held by Kripalani at the time.