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

DEFEAT AND SURRENDER 301
Why the Moslem leaders in the Congress have taken up this
attitude, it is difficult to say—especially when one remembers
that after the Karachi Congress, it was they, who by their
firm attitude, prevented the Mahatma from yielding to the
demand of the communalist Moslems for separate electorate.
Whatever the reason may be, the fact remains that to-day they
are holding a pistol at the Working Committee—and because
of their insistence, the Committee has been forced to take up
this ridiculous attitude of neither accepting nor rejecting the
Award. The argument ordinarily urged in favour of not
rejecting the Award is a twofold one. Firstly, the Congress
should represent all parties in the country, including the
Communalist Moslems, and secondly, that until the parties
arrive at an agreed solution, the present solution should
stand. Both the arguments are fallacious. The Congress
does not represent all the parties in the land—for instance, it
certainly does not represent the loyalists, whether Hindus or
Moslems. Secondly, it is the rejection of a bad solution that
will force us to arrive at a good solution. Like the White
Paper, the Communal Award should be straight away
rejected—no matter whether an alternative solution is
immediately available or not. Moreover, this ‘all parties’
idea is a false and dangerous idea. The party that is fighting
for freedom is the party that is solely responsible for producing
the Constitution. And so far as the Communal question is
concerned, the Congress solution is already there. Be that
as it may, in the present circumstances one is reluctantly
driven to the conclusion that the Nationalist Moslems have
been gradually—may be unconsciously—coming into line
with their Communalist co-religionists.
All attempts at a compromise having failed, Pandit Malaviya
and Mr. Aney resigned from the Congress Working Committee
and the Parliamentary Board and proceeded to form a separate
party—under the name of the Congress Nationalist Party—
with the object of fighting the Communal Award and the
White Paper. This Party held an All-India Conference in
Calcutta on August 19th, under the Presidentship of Pandit
M. M. Malaviya—the Chairman of the Reception Com-
mittee being Sir P. C. Roy, the well-known chemist and