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-Delhi Proposals

In December 1927, a large number of Muslim leaders had met at Delhi at the Muslim League session and evolved four proposals for Muslim demands to be incorporated in the draft constitution. These proposals, which were accepted by the Madras session of the Congress (December 1927), came to be known as the ‘Delhi Proposals’. These were –

1.joint electorates in place of separate electorates with reserved seats for Muslims

2.one-third representation to Muslims in Central Legislative Assembly representation to Muslims in Punjab and Bengal in proportion to their population

3.formation of three new Muslim majority provinces— Sindh, Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province

-Delhi Manifesto

On November 2, 1929, a conference of prominent national leaders issued a “Delhi Manifesto” which demanded:

that the purpose of the Round Table Conferences (RTC), promised by Lord Irwin, 

1.should be to formulate a scheme for implementation of the dominion status;

2.Congress should have majority representation at the conference;

amnesty and 

3.a general policy of conciliation;

Viceroy Irwin rejected these demands on December 23, 1929, which led to the demand of Purna swaraj in Lahore session of INC

-Delhi PACT

The Gandhi Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and the then Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin on 5 March 1931 before the second Round Table Conference in London. Before this, the viceroy Lord Irwin announced in October 1929, a vague offer of 'dominion status' for India in an unspecified future and a Round Table Conference to discuss a future constitution.The second round table conference which was held in 1931.

-Delhi Chalo slogan was given by Indian freedom fighter name Subhas Chandra Bose. 

-Delhi Chalo movement 

Gandhi initiated a limited satyagraha on an individual basis in every locality.The carefully -chosen satyagrahis would preach against participation in the war , after informing the district magistrate of the time and place of the anti war speech. Vinoba Bhave was first satyagrahi on 17 October 1940 and Jawarharlal Nehru , the second . if the government did not arrest them, they planned to start moving towards Delhi (the Delhi Chalo movement)