in which session of congress Gandhi - irvin pact was approved
Answers
The options to the question are
1) Karachi Session
2) Lahore Session
3) Calcutta Session
4) Tripura Session
The answer is 1) Karachi Session
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The Gandhi-Irvin pact was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irvin on March 5, 1931, in London.
The Karachi session was held between March 26 to 31 of 1931 and during it, the Gandhi-Irvin pact was approved by the Congress.
Following the salt march, civil disobedience movement and the arrest of Gandhi need for negotiations arose and so the Gandhi-Irvin pact was signed.
The points negotiated
- Political prisoners not convicted for creating violence were to be released immediately.
- Villages located along the coast were given the right to make salt.
- Properties of the satyagrahis, confiscated were to be restored.
- Peaceful picketing of foreign clothes and liquor shops was to be permitted.
- The ban over the Congress was to be lifted.
- Meanwhile, the Congress agreed to end the Civil Disobedience Movement and to participate in the Second Round Table Conference.