Q27. 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 DisobedienceMovement
- Acceptance of Gandhi’s suggestion for inquiry into police excesses
- Release of only those prisoners who were not charged with violence.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 1, 2 and 4 only
(c) 3 only
(d) 2, 3, and 4 only
Answer: B
- The Delhi Pact (5 March 1931), also known as the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, placed the Congress on an equal footing with the government.
- Statement 1 is correct: Gandhi on behalf of Congress agreed to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement and the Congress got the invitation to participate in the next Round Table Conference.
- Statements 2 and 4 are correct: Lord Irwin, the Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1926-1931), on behalf of the British government agreed with Mahatma Gandhi on the following:
- immediate release of all political prisoners not convicted of violence;
- remission of all fines not yet collected;
- return of all lands not yet sold to third parties;
- lenient treatment to those government servants who had resigned;
- right to make salt in coastal villages for personal consumption (not for sale);
- right to peaceful and non-aggressive picketing; and withdrawal of emergency ordinances.
- Statement 3 is not correct: The viceroy turned down two of Gandhiji’s demands: a public inquiry into police excesses and commutation of the death sentence of Bhagat Singh and his comrades to life sentence
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