NEHRU BACK IN NEW DELHI

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24909, 24 June 1946, Page 5

NEHRU BACK IN NEW DELHI

Congress Committee Meeting ADVICE OF MR GANDHI (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) Si&u, who 12ffi /eSmig an aeroplane, has arrived at New DelhL where he' was received by pr»™ nenl members of the Congress p y‘X- .. The Congress Party working commit tee, after four hours’ considerationof the correspondence between ‘ he ,.Y‘ c . e h • roy (Lord Wavell) and Mr (president of the Moslem League) on the modifications to the British Cam net Mission's proposals, deferred the question until Pandit Nehru joins the C °Congress circles are of the opinion that Mr Gandhi’s advice to ‘he committee wiU decide the fete of the-Cabinet Mission's proposals so far as Congress iS F?fty-sbT Sikh leaders, representing all shades of Sikh opinion, at an emergency meeting of ‘bcUnited Sikh Board, unanimously decided that the Sikh_re presentative of the Punjab, Sardar Baldev Singh, should decline the Viceroy • Invitation to participate in the interim “'rhe’prtme Minister of Orissa, Hart Krishna Mahatab. has Informed the Vlseroy that he is unable for personal reasons to accept the Invitation to serve in India’s interim Cabinet. Reuter’s recalls that the Congress working committee on June 19 contended that Mahatab could not be spared from his post, and pressed for the inclusion of the Congress Party leader in the Central Assembly, Sarat Ct The dr p“re®°dlnt of the Congress Party (Dr. Azad) earlier ordered Pandit Nehru to return from Kashmir to New Delhi. This was the Congress reply to a telegram from Pandit Nehru ing the working committee to carry on without him, as “he was whol y unable to return until the full liberty of the movement, including a visit to Srinagar, is accorded me.” Dr. Arad’s message stated that Congress was as equally solicitous as Pandit Nehru regarding Sheik Abdullah’s case and the welfare of the Kashmir peoples, but he considered that Pandit Nehru’s presence in New Delhi was essential above all other matters. He therefore expected that Pandit Nehru would return to New Delhi and notify the Maharajah of Kashmir that he would return to Kashmir “retrieve his honour and fulfil his mission, as . soon as he was freed by Congress. Two grain shop looters were shot down by police during disturbances in Madura held as a protest against Pandit Nehru’s detention, says the New Delhi correspondent of Reuter’s. The police used tear-gas against the demonstrators to-night and a curfew was imposed. Hartals held in other Indian towns in sympathy with Pandit Nehru passed off without incident Pandit Nehru, who was first reported to be taken to Chinari, was them re- > ported to be at Un, 60 miles from ' Srinagar, with his secretary and two . others.