Lahore Session of Muslim League (1940) was presided over by

The answer is C, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. He presided over the 27th annual session of the All-India Muslim League at Minto Park, Lahore, in March 1940, where the famous Lahore Resolution was passed. That resolution demanded that Muslim-majority areas of the north-west and east of India be grouped into 'independent states'. The word 'Pakistan' does not appear in the original text, so do not let that detail trip you up in Mains answers.

• A) Liaqat Ali Khan: He was the League's General Secretary, an organisational role, not the presidency.
• B) Chaudhary Khaliquzzaman: A senior League leader from UP who was active in the Lahore deliberations, but he did not preside over the session.
• D) Fatima Jinnah: She had no formal party office in 1940. She became prominent in Pakistani politics later.

The core concept here is the Lahore Resolution and the shift from demands for safeguards within a united India to the two-nation theory. For Mains, this links directly to the constitutional and communal politics of the 1930s and 1940s that led to Partition in 1947.

Trap: Candidates often confuse the General Secretary with the President of the League, or assume that a prominent leader who moved or spoke at the session was also its presiding officer.