Gandhi and Jinnah talks - 1944

Gandhi , while in prison, had expressed the desire that the Congress and League should take a unified decision regarding the future of India. But Govt. did not allow him to take any step. Meanwhile Rajagopalachri launched an extensive campaign on the need to arrive at an understanding between the Congress and the League. Many organisations and  individuals had suggested to have talks with Gandhi and Jinnah.
Gandhi and the entire Congress Working Committee were arrested in Bombay by the British on 9 August 1942. Gandhi was held for two years in the Aga Khan Palace in Pune. It was here that Gandhi suffered two terrible blows in his personal life. His 50-year-old secretary Mahadev Desai died of a heart attack 6 days later and his wife Kasturba died after 18 months' imprisonment on 22 February 1944; six weeks later Gandhi suffered a severe malaria attack. He was released before the end of the war on 6 May 1944 because of his failing health and necessary surgery; the Raj did not want him to die in prison and enrage the nation. He came out of detention to an altered political scene—theMuslim League for example, which a few years earlier had appeared marginal, "now occupied the centre of the political stage" and the topic of Muhammad Ali Jinnah's campaign for Pakistan was a major talking point. Gandhi met Jinnah in September 1944 in Bombay but Jinnah rejected, on the grounds that it fell short of a fully independent Pakistan, his proposal of the right of Muslim provinces to opt out of substantial parts of the forthcoming political union
Accordingly Gandhi met Jinnah in Sept 1944. The main features of the proposals were as follows;
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