INDIAN NATIONALISM.
• — o~- ; ' ' WHO SHALL LEAD? BT TELEGBAFH—PItXSS ASSOCIATION—COPTEIGHT. : Bombay, Docember 16. A meeting of five thousand Extremists at Calcutta urged Behari Arabinta Ghose to retiro in' favour of Jajpat Rai for the Presidency of the National Congress. A counter demonstration was made in favour of the leadership of Surendra Nath Banerjea. ! ' i■■■ ' Lajpat Rai has .declined the Presidency of the Indian National Congress. ' Snrendra Nath Banorjoa is editor of tho "Bengalee." Lajpat Itai, notwithstanding hiß doportation, is hold by some writors to be one of the least the Nationalist leaders; he has done good work in the causo of education and social reform. Concerning Arabinta; Glioso, it was cabled in September that he was charged, as editor of tho "Bande Mataram," with sedition, and was acquitted on technical grounds, while the printer got three months' imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 72, 18 December 1907, Page 7
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