The Indian National Congress, which had been formed to create a mature political dialogue with the British government, included both moderates and patriots.
The party (INLF) was founded by Surendranath Banerjee and some of its prominent leaders were Tej Bahadur Sapru, V. S. Srinivasa Sastri and M. R. Jayakar.
During the agitation against the Simon Commission, he launched the idea of an all-parties conference in India to prepare an agreed constitutional scheme.
This resulted in the "Nehru Report" which proposed a constitution and persuaded the new Labour government in Britain to offer India a Round Table Conference.
They aimed toward parliamentary democracy, including not only an institutional structure but a system of values which emphasized the achievement of national welfare through peaceable negotiation and compromise among competing public interests.
[1] In the legislative elections of 1923, most Liberal candidates were defeated, but some were returned in both the Center and the provinces, while even some of the principal leaders regained seats through nomination.