 "Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama speaks during a three-day teaching on Shantideva's 'A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life', in Dharamshala on Wednesday, June 06, 2018.")
The Dalai Lama seems to have joined the “open season” declared by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) against India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. This was apparently because Nehru did not concede to Gandhi’s supposed request to make Mohammad Ali Jinnah the first prime minister of Independent India. A move that he said could have forestalled the Partition.
Gandhi scholar and historian Dilip Simeon has corrected the Dalai Lama (https://dilipsimeon.blogspot.com/2018/08/his-holiness-forgets-himself.html). Simeon reminds us that the Gandhi Plan was for Jinnah to take over as prime minister in the interim government which would rule only till
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