SWARAJ IN INDIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 199, 24 August 1925, Page 7

SWARAJ IN INDIA.

A NEW LEADER. POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE. ißeceived 11.30 a.m.) ; DELHI, August 23. Tlie prominent Swarajist, Patel, has been elected chairman of the All-Jndia Assembly at Bombay. Considerable political importance and speculation is attached to the election, as it will bring Patel into close contact with the Viceroy. Up to the present the Swarajist nominees have been defeated in Bengal, Madras, Punjaub, and the United Provinces Legislatures, but have succeeded in Bombay and Central Provinces.— (A. and X.Z. Cable. J Swaraj, the bequest of C. R. Das, subsists on penetration, obstruction, and ultimate destruction of the councils. At I tin 1 elections the Swarajist obtained a clear majority in the Central Provinces, and had large units in the other councils. A new combination, ignoring the lc?s iconoclastic methods of the imprisoned Gandhi, and encouraged by the j iact that a Labour Government wjs in j power at Home, mauc the Legislative I Assembly the chief focus. Mr. Rameny Mao Donald, i-rcn before he became Prime Minister at Home, in a letter to India. showed that lie waj rigidly constitutional, and not in the faintest degree in favour of agencies destructive to the peace and good order of society and of stable government. Earl Lytton invited the uncompromising Das to form a Ministry, but Das declined. He became Mayor of Calcutta, and caused dissention in the ranks of the Nationalists themselves and intense indignation in Great Britain by praising a ruffian who killed .Mr. Day, an Englishman, who had been a }CT'-at friend to the Indians, under the mistaken impression that he was a police ofileer.