CRISIS COMING IN INDIAN AFFAIRS

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5282, 19 December 1946, Page 5

CRISIS COMING IN INDIAN AFFAIRS

(Press Assn.

CONGRESS IJEAGUE 1SSUE PROCLAMATION URGED BY HINDU LEADER

— Rec. 9.30 p.m.)

NEW DELHI, Dec. 18. "I feel that a crisis is coming," said Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, president of the Hindu ^ahasbha party, in the Consdtuent Assernbly when the debate was resumed on Mr. Nehru's resolution for the procLtmation of India as an "inde1 endent sovereign republic" and ihe amendment moved by the *> eteran Indian Liberal, Dr. M. ii. Jayakar, to postpone consideration to enable the Moslem League and the Indian States to participate in the decision. Dr*. Mookerjee said if India was going to free it was not going to be by constitutional means. In view of the developments oi the last few days the British should be told: "You came to India as traders and succeeded by forgery, fraud and force in establishing your Government. You introduced religion into politics. Here you are wtleome to remain if you will remain os friends of India." The passing of the resolution, Dr. ■i lokerjee added, could not legally ii.ir an amendment to the draft Consiitution. "To raise ihe issue of postponement of the deelaration's objectives," he declared, "is practically to iall into the Moslem League trap and sirengtlien the hands of reactionaries England." Representatives of the Angloindian and the scheduled classes supported Dr. Javakar's amendments. Dr. Ambedaker, leader of the depressed classes, argued that India, iiven time and circumstances, would unite. Mr. Nehru's resolution was •jound to .keep the Moslems out ijiere were only three ways in which • decide the Moslem LeagueCongress iiarty issue. They were:— U>- Dne party surrendering to another. A negotiated peace, and (8) Open war. The war, if any, woiild not be llmdus against British, but against Moslems, or worse, against an AngloMoslem convbination. The president of the Moslem Lcaguc, Mr. Jinnah, on reaching airo on his way back to India from Gondon, said he was strengthcned in M •> belief that the Moslems would ichieve Pakistan. Mr. Jinnah said iv wras spending three days in Egypt ; cause he was anaxious that Egypt •hould understand what Moslem -India .vas struggling for, how important it 'its" for Egypt that the Moslems hould succeed, and how dangerous it vould be of they failed.