INDIAN CONGRESS SPLIT
VIEWS ON COMMUNISM CALL M PRESIDENT RUSSIAN FLAN EXTOLLED (Kh'c. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. April 13, 2.45 p.m.) LUCKNOW, April 12. Pundit Jawaruliar Lai Nehru, in the course of his presidential address to the National Congress, advocated a Communistic programme. He landed the Russian economic system and urged that Congress agitation should be linked with other forces of the world working for a new civilisation. India's only solution of the problem was a vast political and social revolution Iw ending vested interests in land. industry, ami the feudal aristocratic Indian ' States, which would be tantamount to the ending of private property. Nehru characterised (he Government of India Act as a "charter of slavery" and declared that the Congress must wreck the new constitution by winning Hie provincial elections anil creating deadlocks. Rajnndrn Prasad, an ex-president, amid applause, taunted .Nehru with propagating mere book lore which would place India in unsafe hands. Nehru's proposals are splitting the Congress. It is understood that Mahalama Gandhi may refuse to co-operate with Nehru, who has admitted that he sees no prospect of direct notion on a national scale, or civic disobendience.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18988, 13 April 1936, Page 11
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