After Quit India Movement, C. Raja gopalachari issued a pamphlet entitled "The Way Out". Which one of the following was a proposal in this pamphlet?

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The establishment of a "War Advisory Council" composed of representatives of British India and the Indian States
Reconstitution of the Central Executive Council in such a way that all its members, except the Governor General and the Commander-in-Chief should be Indian leaders
Fresh elections to the Central and Provincial Legislatures to be held at the end of 1945 and the Constitution making body to be convened as soon as possible
A solution for the constitutional deadlock

Answer 1

The correct answer is A solution for the constitutional deadlock.

Key Points

In the last years of the war, Rajagopalachari was instrumental in negotiations between Gandhi and Jinnah.
In 1944, he proposed a solution to the Indian Constitutional deadlock.
He prepared a formula for Congress-League cooperation.
The C. R. Formula was aimed to solve the political deadlock between the All India Muslim League and Indian National Congress.
Jinnah and the Muslims were in favor of the two-nation theory only.
The Congress was opposed to the idea of partitioning India.
Gandhi supported the Rajagopalachari formula.

Important Points

The main features of the Rajagopalachari formula were:-
- The Muslim league was to endorse the demand for independence for the traditional period, i.e. Muslim league would support the congress’s demand for complete freedom, and then the majority of provinces would go to plebiscite especially northeastern provinces.
- After the second world war ends a commission would demarcate those contiguous areas in NWFP and NEI where Muslims were in majority.
- The terms would be binding only in case of transfer by Britain of full power and responsibility for full governance of India.
- The Muslim league endorsing the congress demand for full independence and cooperating with it in forming an interim government in the transition period.

Additional Information

C. Rajgopalachari served as Governor of West Bengal from 1947 to 1948, Governor-General of India from 1948 to 1950, as Union Home Minister from 1951 to 1952 (invited after Patel’s death), and the Chief Minister of Madras state from 1952 to 1954.
He resigned from the Indian National Congress and with NG Ranga, founded the Swatantra Party, which fought against the Congress in the 1960s and early 70s.
He has written the song Kurai Onrum Illai, which is sung in Carnatic Music.