NEW BRITISH PLAN FOR INDIA

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24679, 24 September 1945, Page 5

NEW BRITISH PLAN FOR INDIA

Rejection By Congress Party RENEWAL OF CLAIMS TO INDEPENDENCE (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, September 22. “The working committee of the All-India Congress Party passed a resolution describing the British proposals for India as vague, inadequate, and unsatisfactory,” says Reuter’s correspondent in Bombay. “The resolution added that nothing short of independence would be acceptable to Congress and the country. “The full India Congress committee to-day passed a resolution reiterating the national and international objectives laid down in the India resolution of August 8, 1945. After the passage of this resolution the 1942 committee was declared unlawful, and arrests were made throughout India.

“Thj renewed resolution records the 1 committee’s conviction that the independence of India is essential to world peace and must be the basis for the freedom of Asiatic and other dependent nations. * “The committee congratulated the Indian people on the manner in which they had withstood the ‘fierce, violent onslaught of British power’ and sym-

pathises with 'those who have suffered during three years of repressive measures which have goaded the people to rise and resist the armed might of an alien, imperialistic Power.’ “Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru moved the resolution in a fiery speech. Mr Vailabhbhai Jhaverbai Patel, who is Mr Gandhi's aide, said the Government had correctly described the'l942 movement as a rebellion.”