What did Cripps Mission propose? How did the Congress and Muslim League react to this?
Proposal of Cripps Mission:
The British Government would accept the new constitution subject to two conditions.
Any province not willing to join the Union could have a separate constitution and form a separate Union, and (ii) the new constitution- making body and the British Government would negotiate a treaty to effect the transfer of power and to safeguard racial and religious minorities.
Congress wanted immediate self-rule so the Congress stopped talks with Cripps and, guided by Gandhi, the national leadership demanded immediate self-government in return for war support. Gandhi said that Cripps' offer of Dominion Status after the war was a "post-dated cheque", while Nehru added that it was a "post-dated cheque drawn on a crashing bank".According to Cripps proposals, provinces could opt out of the Indian Union, which was definitely not acceptable to Congress Nationalists.
The Muslim League did not like the machinery for the creation of a constituent assembly and the procedure to decide on the accession of provinces to the Union. In short, they felt that the proposals denied to the Muslims the right to self-determination and the creation of Pakistan.
Proposal of Cripps Mission:
The British Government would accept the new constitution subject to two conditions.
Any province not willing to join the Union could have a separate constitution and form a separate Union, and (ii) the new constitution- making body and the British Government would negotiate a treaty to effect the transfer of power and to safeguard racial and religious minorities.
Congress wanted immediate self-rule so the Congress stopped talks with Cripps and, guided by Gandhi, the national leadership demanded immediate self-government in return for war support. Gandhi said that Cripps' offer of Dominion Status after the war was a "post-dated cheque", while Nehru added that it was a "post-dated cheque drawn on a crashing bank".According to Cripps proposals, provinces could opt out of the Indian Union, which was definitely not acceptable to Congress Nationalists.
The Muslim League did not like the machinery for the creation of a constituent assembly and the procedure to decide on the accession of provinces to the Union. In short, they felt that the proposals denied to the Muslims the right to self-determination and the creation of Pakistan.
