The Gandhi-Irwin Pact included which of the following?
- Invitation to Congress to participate in the Round Table Conference
- Withdrawal of Ordinances promulgated in connection with the Civil Disobedience Movement
- Acceptance of Gandhiji’s suggestion for enquiry into police excesses
- Release of only those prisoners who were not charged with violence
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
- 1 only
- 1, 2 and 4 only
- 3 only
- 2, 3 and 4 only
Explanation
- By pact Delhi Pact, popularly known as the Gandhi-Irwin Pact:
- The government agreed:
- To release those political prisoners who had remained non-violent.
- To remit penalties not yet collected.
- To return confiscated lands not yet sold to third parties.
- To withdraw ordinances promulgated in relation to the Civil Disobedience Movement.
- The government conceded:
- The right to make salt for consumption in villages along the coast.
- The right to peaceful picketing of liquor and foreign cloth shops.
- The Congress:
- Suspended the Civil Disobedience Movement
- Agreed to participate in the Second Round Table Conference.
- The following demands of the Congress were not accepted by the British:
- A public inquiry into police excesses
- The commutation of the death sentences of Bhagat Singh and his comrades.
- Many Congress leaders, particularly the younger, left-wing section, opposed the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
- They objected because the government did not concede any significant nationalist demands, including the commutation of the death sentence of Bhagat Singh and his comrades.
- However, Gandhiji suspended the civil disobedience movement.
