Nehru made Sardar's public statement a question of his personal prestige and he personally made a program to visit Ajmer, but suddenly the nephew of Pt. Nehru died. Due to this the trip had to be cancelled. Nehru thought that this would have a bad effect on Ajmer as he was eagerly awaited in Ajmer. This yatra was being done to show the whole country that the government is very concerned about this type of situation and the leaders are taking personal interest in dealing with it.
Nehru believed that Ajmer is the second important city in the country after Delhi, where the happenings are having an impact on the policies of the whole country. Therefore Nehru appointed his principal private secretary H.R. we are. Iyengar to go to Ajmer and apologize to the people of Ajmer on behalf of Nehru for not coming to Nehru. Iyengar visited Ajmer on a Saturday on 20 December 1947. He inspected the damage sites in Ajmer and discussed with the members of the Advisory Council. He also discussed with Mukut Bihari Lal and Balkrishna Kaul. The next day he spoke to Muslim delegations, Khadims, members of Arya Samaj, members of Mahasabha and press representatives.
Ajmer's Chief Commissioner Shankar Prasad was horrified by Iyengar's visit in this way. He felt that the visit had created an image that the Chief Commissioner had not only miserably failed to handle the situation but had also been dishonest in telling the whole facts to the government. Therefore Shankar Prasad wrote a letter to V. Shankar, private secretary to Home Minister Sardar Patel, informing that the Chief Commissioner should at least have the right to know what he has done which is not to be believed and Questions are being asked from the public regarding it. Sardar Patel also did not like Iyengar's visit to Ajmer.
On 23 December 1947, Patel wrote a letter to Iyengar, rebuking that being such a senior officer, he should have thought about the serious implications of his visit. What is the strange condition of a senior officer like the Chief Commissioner of Ajmer, who is the head of a province?
In such a situation, the Chief Commissioner has every right to oppose every officer other than the ministers or the secretary of his department. Patel also criticized Iyengar for issuing a statement in the press regarding Ajmer-Merwara. From this statement made in these circumstances, it appears that there is dissatisfaction among the Prime Minister about the work being done by the Chief Commissioner to handle the situation in Ajmer. If the Prime Minister himself could not go, he could have asked Sardar Patel or Gopalaswami or any other minister to go.