Lucknow Pact

i) Provinces should be freed as much as possible from Central control in administration and finance. ii) Four-fifths of the Central and Provincial Legislative Councils should be elected, and one-fifth nominated. iii) Four-fifths of the provincial and central legislatures were to be elected on as broad a franchise as possible. iv) Half the executive council members, including those of the central executive council were to be Indians elected by the councils themselves.

v) The Congress also agreed to separate electorates for Muslims in provincial council elections and for preferences in their favour (beyond the proportions indicated by population) in all provinces except the Punjab and Bengal, where some ground was given to the Hindu and Sikh minorities. This pact paved the way for Hindu–Muslim cooperation in the Khilafat Movement and Gandhi’s Non–Cooperation Movement.