Karachi Session (1931)

In March 1931, Congress held a special session in Karachi to endorse the Gandhi-Irwin Pact.
Session was held 6 days before the death of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru.
Gandhi was greeted with black flag by the Punjab Naujawan Bharat Sabha, protesting his failure to secure the commutation of the death sentence for Bhagat Singh and his comrades.

The Karachi Session reaffirmed the Indian National Congress’s goal of complete independence (Poorna Swaraj).
The session passed a resolution demanding that the British government grant India full and immediate independence, and vowed to launch a nationwide struggle to achieve this goal.
The Karachi Session was pivotal in endorsing Mahatma Gandhi’s call for the resumption of the Civil Disobedience Movement, which had been temporarily suspended.
Significant reductions in rent and revenue for landholders and peasants, exemption from rent for uneconomic holdings, relief from agricultural indebtedness, usury control, better working conditions, including a living wage, limited hours of work, and protection of women workers in the industrial sector, the right of workers and peasants to form unions, state ownership and control of key industries, mines, and modes of transportation, were the goals of the Purna swaraj.
The session strongly condemned communalism and emphasised the Indian people’s unity across religious and communal lines.