WRECKING POLICY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 155, 14 April 1936, Page 5

WRECKING POLICY

COMMUNISM IN INDIA. ADVOCACY IN THE CONGRESS. SPLIT AMONG THE MEMBERS. United Press Association—Copyright) LUCKNOW, April 12. Pandit .Jawarhar Lai Nehru, in the course of his presidential address to the National Congress, advocated a Communistic programme. He lauded the Russian economic system and urged that the Congress agitation should be likened with other forces of the world working for a new civilisation. India s only solution of the problem was a political social revolution ending vest- / ed interests in land and industry and the feudal aristocratic Indian States, wihicb would be tantamount to ending private property. Nehru characterised the Government of India Act as a charter of slavery and declared that the Congress _ must wreck the new Constitution by winning the provincial elections and creating deadlocks.

Rajandra Prasad (ex-president), amid applause, taunted Nehru with propagating mere book lore, which would place India in unsafe hands. Nehru’s proposals are splitting the Congress. It is understood that Mahatma Gandhi may refuse to co-operate with Nehru, who admitted that he saw no prospect of direct action on a national scale or civic disobedience.