Mention any two reasons for the acceptance of the Mountbatten Plan by the Congress.

(1) The communal riots that had followed Direct Action Day in 1946 had spread across the country, and the Congress felt that partition was the only way to stop the bloodshed. (2) The League’s obstruction inside the Interim Government had shown that a united India with an unwilling partner would be unworkable; the Congress judged that a smaller but strong and united India, with a Constituent Assembly free to frame its own constitution, was better than a large but weak and divided one.

One mark each, argued from the Congress point of view — the question asks WHY they accepted, not what the plan said. The two strongest reasons are ending the communal violence and the unworkability of a united India with the League. Gandhiji’s opposition is worth a closing phrase, since it shows the decision divided the Congress itself.