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Resignation of Congress Ministries
- In 1939 the Second World War broke out Viceroy of India Linlithgow immediately announced that India was also at war.
- The colonial government of India entered the War on behalf of the Allies without consulting the Congress ministries so the Congress ministries resigned in protest.
- The Muslim League celebrated the end of Congress rule as a Day of Deliverance on 22 December 1939.
- In 1939 Subhas Chandra Bose became the President of the Congress by defeating Pattabhi Sitaramayya, the candidate of Gandhi.
- When Gandhi refused to cooperate, Subhas Chandra Bose resigned his post and started the Forward Bloc and Rajendra Prasad elected as the President in Calcutta session.
- The Communists initially opposed the Second World War calling it the “Imperialist War“.
- When Nazi attacked on the Soviet Union, the Communists called it the ‘People’s War’ and offered cooperation to the British.
- As a result, in 1942, the ban on the Communist Party of India was lifted.