INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA

Taranaki Daily News, 31 December 1929, Page 9

INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA

SEPARATION FROM BRITAIN

CONGRESS COMMITTEE VIEWS POLICY OF BOYCOTT URGED British Wireless. Rugby, Dec. 28. The working committee of the Indian “National” Congress, consisting of 25 members of Congress, has adopted a motion by Mr. Gandhi which, while appreciating the efforts of the Viceroy for a settlement of 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.

Press messages from India point out that though the Congress is described as an “All India’Congress” it does not represent all India. It ie believed that the abstention of congressists from the central and provincial legislatures may even give new life to and increase the powers of the latter, eeeing that they will then be manned only by co-operators. The committee passed a resolution defining “Swaraj” as "independence and separation from Great Britain.” The committee is demanding, under Gandhi’s influence, the boycott of the legislature, courts and schools; in other words, the return to the* s disastrous policy followed at the time of the Prince of Wales’ visit. , -

In the meantime, behind the scenes, congressmen are wrangling fiercely, and by a narrow majority the committee passed a resolution deploring the bomb outrage "and congratulating the Viceroy on his escape.