STILL RAGING
CONTROVERSY OVER INDIAN SALT TAX
OPPONENTS’ VIEWS by telegraph.—press association. —Copyright. Delhi, April 3. Hie salt tax controversy continues raging. The leader of the Democratic Party- in a manifesto says that it is absurd to speak of their objections to the tax as purely sentimental or political. A severe blow has been dealt at reforms by certification, and the cumulative effect of such an exercise of executive authority would render the position of the people’s representatives under the reformed Constitution wholly- illusory. The president of the Liberal Association cabled to the Secretary of State ’for India to ask for Parliament’s intervention with a view of allaying the discontent caused by the Viceroy’s certification, stating that it. has weakened the Government’s prestige and the position of those who loyallv supported the Government in making tne reforms a success. , Tlie Bengal extremists, by an overwhelming majority, passed a resolution proposing that non-co-oporators should disobey the enhanced salt tax, and requesting the All-India Congress to empower the Bengal Congress to declare mass civil disobedience. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 169, 5 April 1923, Page 7
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