The Secretary of Province Department Shri V. P. Menon on 11th January 1943 went to Jaipur and talked to Jaipur King. Jaipur Maharaj Sawai Man Singh after much hesitation and persuasion was prepared for merger with greater Rajasthan but this condition was laid that Jaipur king be made the ancestral Royal King of greater Rajasthan Jaipur be made the capital of Rajasthan. Shri Menon after much discussion and thought, gave acceptance. On 14th January 1949 Sardar Patel in an ordinary gathering in Udaipur declared the construction of Greater Rajasthan’.
