The Congress took a critical stand over the Montford Reforms in 1918, which led to break up with the old moderate remnants (Sapru, Jayakar and Chintamani) who formed the

When the Indian National Congress rejected the Montagu-Chelmsford (Montford) Reforms at a special session in 1918, moderate leaders including Surendranath Banerjee, Tej Bahadur Sapru, M. R. Jayakar, and C. Y. Chintamani severed ties with the Congress and established the Indian National Liberal Federation in 1919.