CONGRESS PARTY
DISINTEGRATION PERCEIVED BY GANDHI. LACK OF DISCIPLINE CRITICISED. Signs of disintegration in the Congress Party organisation are discussed by Mahatma Gandhi in his weekly' newspaper, a Daventry report states. He said he did not believe that they were beyond repair, but added that he could not lead an .undisciplined army' to victory. Before there was any campaign for civil disobedience in order to press their demands, the Congress Party must show more goodwill, said Mr Gandhi. If these conditions were not fulfilled he would cheerfully become the laughing stock of India and the world and would descend from his pedestal of leadership. At the same time he would have the supreme satisfaction of being true to himself. Mr Gandhi mentioned a number of provinces in which there was lack of discipline in Congress, and his criticism of the Bengal provincial committee was carried further in a statement to the Press by the president of the Congress Party, Mr Prasad, who said that the working committee would be justified in taking drastic action against the Bengal provincial committee.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 5
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179CONGRESS PARTY Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 5
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