Subhas Bose (1937- 1938) [contd-4]

(Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, popularly known as Kripalani, was an Indian politician, noted particularly for holding the presidency of the Indian National Congress during the transfer of power in 1947)
On Jan. 18, 1938, Acharya J.B.Kripalani , general secretary of the Indian National Congress, announced in India that Bose had been elected president of the fifty-first session of the Congress, to be held at Haripura at Gujrat.
Gandhi sent a Telegram to Bose, which read in part, 'God give you strength to bear the weight of Jawahar Lal's mantle'.
Gandhi's favourite left-wing son had been Congress president for the past two years while the right wing controlled the Working Committee and the Congress organisation.He had thought to make him under his control Bose arrived in Calcutta on Jan 24. He had been two months abroad.

Subhas Bose arrived at Bardoli in a special train and was received by Sardar Patel.. Then he was taken to Haripura by a car. Villagers garlanded him as he passed Haripura. According to report of his journey;

 His presidential address was the lengthiest and most important speech he gave during his career.

He analysed Capitalism and Imperialism quoted by Lenin. He advocated socialism and not communism. He said;

He showed that how British used their policy 'divide and rule' in Ireland, in Palestine, and were trying to extend it even in India. The federal provisions to be fiercely opposedand the Communal Award condemned. He insisted;

The idea of Planning Commission - modeled on  that of the Soviet Unionand other European nationnswas one pet idea Bose put forward in this speech.

Before he finished he turned to the international context;

At this session the Congress voted to to condemn Japanese aggression in Chinaand to call upon the public boycott Japanese goods and it criticised fascist aggression in Europe. this resolution condemned;

Bose had no alternative other than to accept a Gandhian frame work withinwhich he had to operate.

At Haripura Gandhiji sent instruction

 to Sardar Patel;

One thing Bose insisted to form a Planning Commission under the Chairman 

of Jawaharlal, a socialist. Bose wanted. The work of the National Planning Committee which you entrusted to me ,

Bose formulated the following principles

Another arena in which he supported his high command brethren was in the relationship to the all India Muslim leagueand to Mr. Jinnah. Since the break down in the 1920s of the 1916 Lucknau Pact, the relations of the Congress and the Muslim league had followed a generally uncooperative and unfortunate course . Bose like many in the leadership in the Congress had long opposed separate electorates for Muslims, though this had been part of the bargain at Lucjnau during the first World War Bose argued that 'joint electorates is the basis of democracy'. Bose had to resume the correspondence of thd Congress  president with the president of the Muslim Leaguethat had been carried on with Mr. Jinnah since 1935. On Aug 2, 1938, Jinnah wrote to Bose;

A number of desultory letters followed between th two organisation, menifesting a fundamental lack of communication. 

At the December  meeting of the working Committee . on useful purpoae was served. Bose wrote in part, 

Nirad C. Chaudhury commented on Bose;

Sarat Bose wrote to Congress President Nehru  how to change the direction of affairs in Bengal;Subhas Bose 

When Subhas Bose pressed Gandhi for a Congress coalition in Bengal, Gandhi wrote to him on Dec 18, 1938;

Subhas Bose replied at length in his blunt manner, telling Gandhi, in part

During the mid- and the late -1930s , Subhas Bose surely was the most prominent India spokesman to advocate , using the international situation to India's advantage . In March 1938, he wrote to Jawaharlal Nehru

Rash Behari Bose said;