In an effort to win them over, the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, announced in October 1929, a vague offer of ‘dominion status’ for India in an unspecified future, and a round table conference to discuss a future constitution.
This did not satisfy the Congress leaders. The radicals within the Congress, led by Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose, became more assertive.
The liberals and moderates, who were proposing a constitutional system within the framework of British dominion, gradually lost their influence.