2. On 22 June 1939 was held the All India Session in Mumbai where the Constitution and programme of Forward Bloc was adopted.

3. First All India Conference of Forward bloc was held in Nagpur, from 18 to 22 June 1940. In his Presidential Address, Subhash Chandra gave a concrete plan of action for winning Puma Swaraj or complete freedom in the immediate future. The conference resolved that, in order to win independence for India, and in order to preserve it, as soon as possible the following steps be taken : 1. The struggle launched at Ramgarh (March 1940) be intensified locally and further widened in its scope under the slogan 'All Power To Indian People'. 2. Steps be taken to promote and develop national unity on as many fronts and in as many directions as possible. 3. Measures be adopted for forming Panchayat in every locality, beginning from the village right up to the center, to function as organs of struggle and later on as organsof administration.

4. It was 17 January 1941, dead of night, that the 'Great Escape' of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose from India opened a new chapter of the political history of the country. Forward Bloc leaders and workers came under sharp torture and humiliation of the British police and its intelligence. A huge number of them were put to jails and confinements. And Forward Bloc was declared banned on 23 June 1942. 'Quit India' movement started from 9 August 1942. Forward Bloc, even when was declared illegal, played a revolutionary role to crown the struggle of the people with success and glory. Forward Bloc workers, along with the radical Congress workers, the socialists and other left forces, except communists, took part in the historic '42 Movement which was one of the biggest revolutionary mass movement after the Great Revolt of 1857. On the national level leaders of the Party like Sardul Singh Kaveesher, Sheelbhadra Yajee, H. V. Kamath, R. S. Ruikar, K. N. Joglekar, Mukundalal Sarkar, U. Mathuralingam Thevar were noteworthy.