HISTORY
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Sir George Stanley
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Lord Wavell
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Lord Linlithgow
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Lord Willingdon
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Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Congress rejected the August Offer of $$1940$$ issued by Viceroy Lord Linlithgow.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Congress Working Committee meeting at Wardha on 21 August 1940 eventually rejected the offer, and asserted its demand for complete freedom from the imperial power. Gandhi viewed it as having widened the gulf between Nationalist India and the British ruler.
Detailed explanation-4: -The August Offer was dismissed by the Congress Government on 21 August 1940 in a meeting at Wardha. It was rejected on the fact that the Britishers were not guaranteeing their complete sovereignty and just the Dominion Status for the country.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1940, Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow on 8 August promised that a constituent Assembly would be set up after the war which would determine India’s constitutional future and this came to be referred as “ August offer”.