Title: Congress in Electoral Politics and After, 1935–39
Abstract: The end of the civil disobedience movement once again witnessed a division in the Congress leadership in Bengal. One section within the party preferred to return to constructive social work to keep up mass contact. Others opted to contest elections for local boards and legislatures. The latter felt that ‘the members may not in principle recognize council entry as one of the means to fight the bureaucracy but it may reserve clear enunciation of its attitude towards the coming Reforms for future consideration.’ At the AICC meeting in May 1934 a new parliamentary board was formed to control electoral affairs. In Bengal, while Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy was in favour of the parliamentary programme, most Congressmen were opposed to council entry.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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