The mission under Stafford Cripps (the Lord Privy Seal and a member of the British War Cabinet) arrived in India on March 22, 1942 to find out a political formula for transfer of power to Indians.
The main proposals of the mission was to grant Dominion status to India at the end of the Second World War and setting up of an interim government to administer the country in all matters except defence.
The Congress and the League rejected the offer Gandhiji called the cripps offer ‘‘a Post Dated Cheque on a Crashing Bank’’.

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