From 29 April to, the All India Congress Committee assembled in Allahabad to discuss the resolution of the Working Committee. He called for a voluntary British withdrawal from India.

Gandhi seized upon the failure of the Cripps Mission, the advances of the Japanese in South-East Asia and the general frustration with the British in India. The failure of the Cripps Mission further estranged the Congress and the British Government. The draft was unacceptable to the Congress Working Committee who rejected it. The draft granted India Dominion status after the war but otherwise conceded few changes to the British Government Act of 1935. In March 1942, the Prime Minister dispatched Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the War Cabinet, to India to discuss the British Government's Draft Declaration. Pressure was mounting from China, the United States and Britain to solve the issue of the future status of India before the end of the war. Disorderly and non-violent demonstrations took place throughout the country in the following days.īy the middle of 1942, Japanese troops were approaching the borders of India. The next day, Gandhi, Nehru and many other leaders of the Indian National Congress were arrested by the British Government. On 8 August 1942 at the All-India Congress Committee session in Bombay, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the 'Quit India' movement.

1942: Call of War