Lucknow Pact

The Muslim League leaders agreed to join the Congress movement demanding Indian autonomy.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak represented the Congress while framing the deal, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah (who joined the Muslim League in 1913) participated in this event.

[3] The Congress agreed to separate electorates for Muslims in electing representatives to the Imperial and Provincial Legislative Councils.

It led to a growing belief in British India that Home Rule (self-government) was a real possibility.

The Lucknow Pact also helped in establishing cordial relations between the two prominent groups within the Indian National Congress – the 'extremist' faction led by the Lal Bal Pal trio (Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal), and the 'moderate' faction led by Gopal Krishna Gokhale until his death in 1915 and later represented by Gandhi.