LAHORE RESOLUTION AND PUNJAB POLITICS

Abstract

The political events in India and especially in the Punjab began to move at a rapid pace as World War II started in 1939. On September 3, 1939 the Viceroy declared India as a belligerent State without consulting the Provincial Congress Ministeries.[1]  The Congress Working Committee met on October 22^nd and called upon the provincial ministeries to resign after adopting a resolution in the Provincial Legislatures on the War Efforts.[2] The provincial ministeries headed by the Congress party resigned from office in protest.[3] However, the resignation of the Congress Ministeries in 1939 proved a big ‘blunder’. It left the field open to the Muslim League to capture power in the Punjab, Bengal and Sind