Consider the following statements with reference to Indian National Congress' stand before and during World War -II: 1. Indian National Congress offered to cooperate if a constituent assembly is convened to determine the political structure of free India. 2. A responsible government should be established at the centre. Which of the above given statements is/are correct?

· Statement 1 and 2 are correct: Though INC was extremely hostile towards Fascism, Nazism and Imperialism but it offered to cooperate in the war on two conditions: After the war a constituent assembly should be convened to determine the future of the political structure of free India. If immediately a genuine and responsible government is established at the centre. · But Linlithgow (the then British Viceroy) rejected the offer in spite of arguments given by the Congress that the demands are necessary to win public opinion for war.