द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

300 THE INDIAN STRUGGLE
available, it appears that the Congress Socialist Party has
offered a platform not only to those who are Socialists by
conviction, but also to those who are dissatisfied with the
Congress policy of council-entry. It is unfortunate that the
opposition to council-entry came from the Socialist Party,
because there is nothing anti-Socialist in fighting within the
Legislatures, if such a policy is otherwise deemed expedient.
But it may be that the Socialist Party, representing some of
the radical forces in the Congress, instinctively felt called
upon to oppose a party that had rallied all the moderate
elements. And there is no doubt that those who have taken a
leading part in the Swarajist revival of 1934, are of a different
calibre from that militant group which formed the backbone
of the Swaraj Party in 1923. It is interesting to note here
that as in 1928, the erstwhile Swarajists and 'No-Changers'
made common cause against the Independence-wallahs—so
also in 1934, these two groups seem to have closed up their
ranks against the common enemy. Though the Congress
Socialist Party has, in some respects, been harking back to
the ideas and shibboleths that were popular forty or fifty
years ago, it does stand for a radical tendency in the Nationalist
movement and the formation of such a party is a very hopeful
feature of the times. The latest reports go to show that the
organisation of the party is making headway in most of the
provinces and in the recent elections to the Bombay Congress
Committee, the Socialists claimed to have captured half the
seats.
In spite of the menace of the Socialists, the official bloc in
the Congress have not been a happy family. At the meetings
of the Working Committee held at Bombay and Benares, after
the Patna meeting in May, differences appeared over the
attitude that should be adopted towards the so-called 'Com-
munal Award' of the British Government. Pandit M. M.
Malaviya and Mr. M. S. Aney held that the Communal
Award, like the White Paper, should be strongly condemned.
The rest of the Working Committee under the influence of
the Moslem members, maintained that the Congress should
'neither accept nor reject' the Communal Award, though
they admitted that the Award was thoroughly obnoxious.