The moderates had always opined for achieving the means to an end through peaceful negotiations. In the initial years of its establishment, it was more of a political debating party. The moderates though later rose to a more radical form of demand for independence always refrained from extremist measures and favoured vehemently the non-violence method and the method of Ahimsa, shown by Mahatma Gandhi. Their prime focus was of social reforms which were called as distractions from the goal of Swaraj by Lokmanya Tilak. The moderates always never completely demanded the complete independence until the congress's session of Lahore were for the first time Jawaharlal Nehru, the then president of INC demanded Purna Swaraj and end of British rule in India.