Gandhi vs Subhas Bose

Subhas won  defeating Sitaramayya, Gandhi's nominee, in 1939, Tripuri Congress  President election by 1, 580 votes against 1,375 which came as a surprise to Mahatma Gandhi and his closest colleagues. The leftists throughout India backed Bose. This was the high watermark of their unity in the twentieth century. Bose also had considerable support from some regions of India, e.g. , The Punjab, his own province, anti-Sitaramayya area as Taminadu, and some impatience with the Gandhian high-command in other areas. Gandhi issued a hostile and self-accusatory statement from Bordoli two days after;
"I must confess that from the very beginning I was decidedly against his re-election....I was instrumental in inducing Dr. Pattabhi not to withdraw..... the defeat is more mine than this....After all Subhas Babu is not an enemy of his country".
So far, Gandhi had maintained since he came to the fore in Indian politics after the first World War, that executive bodies had to be homogeneous . Now it was sign of strength of Subhas and he had to form his own working committee.
In response to Gandhi's hostile statement Bose did not express the bitterness he felt about Gandhi's words, rather he said;
" I do not know what opinion Mahatmaji has of me. But whatever his view may be , it will always be my aim and object to try and win his confidence for the simple reason that it will be tragic thing for me  if I succeed in winning the confidence of other people but fail to win the confidence of India's greatest man."
Bose met with Gandhi on February 15 and returned empty hand. Moreover, J.B.Kripalani told him,
 " living in a fool's paradise".
M.N.Roy, leader of the League of Radical suggested a homogeneous Working Committee with all the leftists with himself as General Secretary and asked him to assert himself to give a new leadership. But to Bose leftists were disorganised and occasionally irresponsible. Bose took Jawaharlal as a crucial person who wrote, " I decided to devote energies towards bridging the gulf between the old leaders and the new socialist group.  
To teach Bose a good lesson , on Feb 22, 1939, 12 Working Committee members except the Boses and seemingly including leftist Jawahar lal Nehru, resigned. Jawahar Lal Nehru gave a separate resignation letter. The resignation letter came in reply to a request made by Subhas, due to his illness,  written to Sardar Patel to postpone the Working Committee meeting, scheduled to be held on 22. February at Wardha
Bose wanted Gandhi's intervention but the resignations from the Working Committee were the first indication to Bose what this was to mean.