In May 1945, Linlithgow was replaced by Lord Wavell as the Governor General and Viceroy of India. He started making new efforts to solve the problem of India. The problem was that the Congress wanted the whites to leave India as it is, and leave immediately. The Muslim League led by Jinnah wanted the British to break India into two pieces before giving independence and create a separate country called Pakistan for the Muslims. Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar wanted that the Dalit castes should be given proper place in independent India. The British wanted India to be given dominion status by not giving it complete independence.
Dominion status meant that the Government of India remained completely independent in the matter of internal governance, but at the global level it remained a member of the Commonwealth, headed by the British Crown. The Congress had passed the resolution of Purna Swaraj on 31 December 1929, so it used to flare up in the name of Dominion Status. In this way, all the parties were adamant on their respective arguments and the way for India's independence was not being cleared.
England was behaving like a two-headed snake. On the one hand, his youth were killed in such a large number in World War II that now he was not getting British boys to appoint collectors and commissioners in a vast country like India, while he also wanted to give the posts of Tehsildars to British boys. . In the ships in which the young people of England used to come to rule India, England did not have money to put coal in those ships.
That is why he wanted that somehow India's independence should be entangled in the communal question so that he could rule India for a few more years and remove his poverty. The new Viceroy Wavell called the Simla Conference on 25 June 1945 to consider the formation of an interim government. That is why all the Congress leaders who were in jails including Patel were released. Gandhiji was released on 6 May 1945 due to illness. The Congress believed that it led 100 percent Hindus, Sikhs and people of other faiths and 90 percent Muslims. The Muslim League believed that the League had the support of 90 percent of the Muslims of the country. Jinnah used to say that only Muslim League can represent Muslims.
Whereas Gandhiji said that Congress represents both Hindus and Muslims. Gandhiji included Maulana Abul Kalam on behalf of the Congress in the Simla Conference. Jinnah insisted that there would be only four Muslim representatives in the interim government and that all four would be from the Muslim League.
Congress has the right to make only Hindus as its representatives. The Simla Conference failed when Jinnah was implicated.