Lucknow pact - wikipedia Lucknow pact This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2016 ) The Lucknow Pact was an agreement reached between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League at the joint session of both the parties held in Lucknow in December 1916. Through the pact, the two parties agreed to allow overrepresentation to religious minorities in the provincial legislatures. The Muslim League leaders agreed to join the Congress movement demanding Indian autonomy. Scholars cite this as an example of a consociational practice in Indian politics. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, then a member of the Congress as well as the League, made both the parties reach an agreement to pressure the British government to adopt a more liberal approach to India and give Indians more authority to run their country, besides safeguarding basic Muslim demands. Jinnah is seen as the mastermind and architect of this pact. Contents 1 Background 2 Agreements by the Congress 3 Demands presented to the British 4 Importance 5 References Background The British had announced, in order to satisfy the Indians, that they will be considering a series of proposals that would lead to at least half of the members of the Executive Council being elected and the Legislative Council having a majority of elected members. Both the Congress and the Muslim League supported these. Both had realized that for further concessions to be gained, greater cooperation was required. Agreements by the Congress The Congress agreed to separate electorates for Muslims in electing representatives to the Imperial and Provincial Legislative Councils. Although the Muslims were given this right in the Indian Councils Act of 1909, the Indian National Congress opposed it. The Congress also agreed to the idea of one - third seats for the Muslims in the Councils despite the fact that the Muslim population represented less than a third. Apart from that, the Congress agreed that no act affecting a community should be passed unless three - quarters of that community 's members on the council supported it. After the signing of this pact the rivalry between moderates and extremist reduced to some extent. There was a significant change in their relation. Demands presented to the British Both the parties presented some common demands to the British. They demanded : The number of elected seats on the councils should be increased. Motions which were passed by large majorities in the councils should be accepted as bindings by the British Government. Minorities in the provinces should be protected. All provinces should be granted autonomy. Separating the executive from the judiciary Importance The Lucknow Pact is seen as a beacon of hope of Hindu - Muslim unity. It established cordial relations between the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress. Before the pact, both parties were viewed as rivals who opposed each other and worked in their own interests. However, the pact brought a change in that view. The Lucknow Pact also established cordial relations between the two prominent groups of the Indian National Congress -- the `` hot faction '' garam dal led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal, the Lal Bal Pal and the moderates or the `` soft faction '', the naram dal led by Gopal Krishna Gokhale. References Jump up ^ Wilkinson, Steven Ian ( September -- October 2000 ), `` India, Consociational Theory, and Ethnic Violence '', Asian Survey, 40 ( 5 ) : 767 -- 791, JSTOR 3021176 ^ Jump up to : Kelly, Nigel ( 2014 ). The History and Culture of Pakistan. Peak Publishing. p. 61. Muhammad Ali Jinnah Pakistan Movement Fourteen Points of Jinnah I.I. 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Fazlul Huq G.M. Syed Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan Ghulam Bhik Nairang Hasrat Mohani Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Jogendra Nath Mandal K.H. Khurshid Khawaja Nazimuddin Raja Sahib of Mahmudabad Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Qazi Muhammad Essa Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan Maulana Shabbir Ahmad Usmani Sikandar Hayat Khan Maulana Zafar Ali Khan more Activists Hameed Nizami Abdullah Haroon Yusuf Haroon Altaf Husain ( journalist ) Adamjee Haji Dawood Mufti Muhammad Shafi Maulana Ahmed Ali Lahori Malik Barkat Ali Yusuf Khattak Mian Iftikharuddin Iftikhar Hussain Khan Mamdot Shaukat Hayat Khan Muhammad Asad Ziauddin Ahmad A.B.A. Haleem Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr Hakeem Mohammad Saeed Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan Fida Mohammad Khan Sheikh Sir Abdul Qadir Professor M.M. Sharif J.A. Rahim of PPP Z.A. Suleri G. Allana Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi more Literature Idea of Pakistan Jinnah : India, Partition, Independence Notes on Afghanistan and Baluchistan A Short History of Pakistan Pakistan : A Personal History The Myth of Independence Pakistan : A Hard Country Now or Never ; Are We to Live or Perish Forever ? 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Question: who played an important role in the making of lucknow pact
Answer: Muhammad Ali Jinnah