Gandhi and AnarchySankaran Nair, C. (Chettur), Sir
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Gandhi and Anarchy
Sankaran Nair, C. (Chettur), Sir
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Political and social views; India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947
"The working Committee of the Congress resolves that mass civil
disobedience contemplated at Bardoli and elsewhere be suspended and
instructs the local Congress Committees forthwith to advise the
cultivators to pay the land revenue and other taxes due to the
Government and whose payment might have been suspended in anticipation
of mass civil disobedience and instructs them to suspend every other
preparatory activity of an offensive nature." "The suspension of mass
civil disobedience shall be continued till the atmosphere is so
non-violent as to ensure the non-repetition of popular atrocities such
as at Gorakhpur, or hooliganism such as at Bombay and Madras
respectively on the 17th November, 1921 and 13th January last. In order
to promote a peaceful atmosphere the working Committee advises till
further instruction, all Congress organisations to stop activities
specially designed to court arrest and imprisonment, save normal
Congress activities including voluntary hartals wherever an absolutely
peaceful atmosphere can be assured, and for that end all picketing
shall be stopped save for the bona fide and peaceful purpose of warning
the visitors to liquor shops against the evils of drinking. Such
picketing to be controlled by persons of known good character and
specially selected by the Congress Committee concerned."
"The working Committee advises, till further instructions, the stoppage
of all volunteer processions and public meetings merely for the purpose
of defiance of the notification regarding such meetings. This, however,
shall not interfere with the private meetings of the Congress and other
committees or public meetings which are required for the conduct of the
normal activities of the Congress".
The working Committee advised all Congress organisations to be engaged
in the following activities:--
"To enlist at least one crore of members of the Congress. The workers
should note that no one who does not pay the annual subscription can be
regarded as a qualified congressman."
"To continue the Swaraj fund and to call upon every Congressman or
Congress-sympathiser to pay at least one hundredth part of his annual
income for the year 1921. Every province to send every month 25 per
cent of its income from the Tilak Memorial Swaraj fund to the All-India
Congress Committee."
The above resolutions were directed to be placed before the All-India
Congress Committee for revision if necessary. They were accordingly
brought before the All-India Congress Committee whose Resolution runs
thus.
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