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

APPENDIX
Since the above was written, three events deserving of
notice have taken place. The plenary session of the Congress
met in Bombay on October 26th, 1934. The elections to the
Indian Legislative Assembly, in which the Congress Party has .
been participating, began in November. And the Report of
the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Indian Constitutional
Reforms was published on November 2nd, 1934.
The two important resolutions passed by the Bombay
Congress refer (1) to a change of the Congress Constitution
and (2) Constitution of an all-India Village Industries Asso-
ciation. The second resolution connotes an extension of the
existing Khadi (spinning and weaving) programme of the
Congress and indicates that the Congress desires to emphasise
non-political work. The first resolution has two principle
parts. (1) Reduction in the numerical strength of the Congress
delegates and of the all-India Congress Committee and (2)
provision of a rule that one must habitually wear Khadi for
six months in order to be elected a member of a Congress
Executive. Both the above resolutions may be regarded as
the Mahatma’s handiwork.
According to the Congress Constitution in vogue for
thirteen years, the number of delegates to be elected to a
Plenary Session of the Congress was 6000, while the strength
of the All-India Congress Committee was about 350. At the
Lahore Congress in December 1929, an attempt was made by
Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and others to reduce the
stand of the former to 1000 and of the latter to 100. But the
attempt was defeated. The Bombay Congress has now
reduced the former to 2000 and the latter to 155. The signifi-
cance of this move in very great. When in 1920, the Mahatma
seized the Congress machinery and turned out the older
leaders, the forces of democracy were on his side and the
Nagpur Congress of 1920 was attended by no less than 14,000
delegates. To-day, the Mahatma is afraid of the forces of
democracy which he has helped to stir up, hence his attempt to
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