Bikaner's prime minister K. M. Panikkar warned the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten that the Bikaner state would have no choice but to accede to Pakistan in the event of the headwaters going to Pakistan.
K. M. Panikkar, the premier of Bikaner, informed Lord Mountbatten that Bikaner would be compelled to align itself with Pakistan if the source waters were allocated to that nation.