However, almost the entire Congress leadership, and not merely at the national level, was put into confinement less than twenty-four hours after Gandhi's speech, and the greater number of the Congress leaders were to spend the rest of the war in jail.
با این حال رهبری کل کنگره، نه فقط در سطح ملی، در کمتر از ۲۴ ساعت بعد از سخنرانی گاندی دستگیر شد، و اکثر افراد کنگره بقیه مدت جنگ را در زندان گذراندند.