Who prepared “C.R. Formula” to remove the political deadlock between Muslim League and India National Congress?

The answer is B) Rajgopalachari, better known as C. Rajagopalachari or Rajaji. In 1944, when the Gandhi-Jinnah talks had stalled, he drafted the formula that bears his initials. It proposed that the Muslim League would cooperate with the Congress in the demand for independence and in forming an interim government. After the war, a commission would demarcate the Muslim-majority districts, and their residents would vote on separation through a plebiscite.

• Nehru (A) was a leading Congress figure, but he did not author this formula.
• Chittaranjan Das (C) was the Bengal leader who died in 1925, long before the League-Congress deadlock of the 1940s. He is linked to the Bengal Pact of 1923, not this formula.
• VP Menon (D) was a constitutional adviser who later played a key role in the princely states' merger and the Instrument of Accession in 1947. He did not frame the C.R. Formula.

The formula was rejected by Jinnah, and it marked an early attempt to concede the principle of Pakistan. For Mains, it is a useful case study in the constitutional and communal negotiations that led to Partition.

Trap: Candidates often pick Nehru because he is the most prominent Congress name in the options. Remember that the formula is named after its author's initials, C.R.