INDIAN HOME RULE

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 82, 31 December 1929, Page 9

INDIAN HOME RULE

DEFINITION OF SWARAJ DECISION OF COMMITTEE OF NATIONAL CONGRESS SEPARATION FROM GREAT BRITAIN (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Dellii, December 28. The Working Committee of the Indian National Congress'passed a resolution defining Swaraj as independence and separation from Great Britain and demanding, under Gandhi’s influence the boycott of the Legislatures, Courts, and schools, in other words, a return to the disastrous policy followed at the time of the Prince of Wales’s visit. Meanwhile, behind the scenes Congressmen are wrangling fiercely. By a narrow majority, the committee passed a resolution deploring the bomb outrage and congratulating the Viceroy on his escape. ALL INDIA NOT REPRESENTED AT CONGRESS British Official Wireless. Rugby, December 28. The Working Committee of the Indian National Congress, consisting of twenty-five members of the Congress, has adopted a resolution by Mr. Gandhi, which, while appreciating the efforts of the Viceroy at the settlement of the National Government for Swaraj, or home rule, expresses the opinion that no good purpose would be served by the Congress being represented at the round-table conference in London. It declares that Swaraj, or home rule, shall now mean' complete independence, and, as a preliminary step to attainment of this, it declares a boycott of the Provincial and Central Legislatures, which ai - e in effect the Government of India.

Press messages from India point out that when the Congress is described as an all-India Congress it does not represent all India. It is believed that the abstention of members of Congress from the Central and Provincial Legislatures may even give new life and increase the powejj' of the latter, seeing that they will then be manned only by co-operators.