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

58 THE INDIAN STRUGGLE
the Congress on a country-wide basis. The smallest unit
would be the Village Congress Committee. Several such
Committees would combine to form a Union Congress Com-
mittee. Then there would be formed in succession—sub-
divisional (also called Taluka or Tahsil), district, provincial
and All-India Congress Committees. The All-India Congress
Committee would be a body of about 350 members consisting
of representatives from the different provinces. This
Committee would elect a Working Committee of 15 members
which would be the Supreme Executive of the Congress for
the whole country. Further, the provinces were re-organised
on a linguistic basis. For instance, the Madras Presidency
was divided into Andhra, which is Telegu-speaking and
Tamil-Nadu, which is Tamil-speaking. The basis of the new
Congress Constitution was of a democratic and parliamentary
character. Besides setting up a new Constitution, the Nagpur
Congress laid down a definite plan of work for the coming
year.
Regarding the means to be followed by the Congress for
attaining Swaraj, a change was made in the Constitution.
Hitherto the Congress had been tied down to ‘constitutional’
means, but in future the Congress could adopt ‘all peaceful
and legitimate’ means. This change had to be made in
order to enable the Congress to resort to non-co-operation,
which could be regarded as unconstitutional. Regarding
both the goal and the means, the decision of the Nagpur
Congress represented the golden mean between the views of
the Right-Wingers like Pandit Malaviya and Mr. Jinnah and
the youthful Left-Wingers who swamped the Congress for
the first time in 1920. The latter desired the goal of the
Congress to be complete independence to be attained by all
possible means. It was Mr. Gandhi, however, who by virtue
of his tremendous influence and popularity was able to keep
the Left-Wingers at bay. The Constitution that was adopted
at Nagpur and which holds good even to-day, was practically
his own draft. A year before, at Amritsar, he had been author-
ised by the Congress to revise the existing Constitution of that
body.
Among the other resolutions adopted were those relating