Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Forward Bloc and Subhas Chandra


( Bose Brothers of Bengal Congress, 1937)
Throughout the turmoil in the Bengal Congress and Subhas Bose's continnuing tour for the Forward Bloc, Sarat Bose went teadily about his business at the bar and in the Bengal Legislative Assembly . Although the position of the Boses and their supporters in the Bengal Congress was under challenge , Sarat Bose went on acting as the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party in the Bengal assembly and leader of the whole opposition until late in 1940, when disciplinary action was taken against him by the Congress leadership.    
Not surprisingly, a number of these motions and debates focused on the public activity of the of Subhas Bose , for he was the most prominent and noisiest agitator on the Bwngal scene , the one most threatening to the forces of law and order. The April debate focused on a government order which prohibited reports   in the press about the programs held by the suspended Bengal Provincial Congress Committee, or any body affiliated thereto  or concerned there with or Mr. Subhas Chandra Bose and Swami Sahajananda or either of them.
After the arrest of Subhas Bose , adjournment motions were again offered, Muslim members heatedly said that Bose was acting for all Indians, Hindu and Muslim, in demanding that the Monument go.In arguing for the release of news about the agitation  - which was also banned  - Sarat Bose said in the course of yet another adjournment motion debate , that the restrictions in India were more severe than in Britain which was under siege . In part he said ,
" the war is at the door of England still war news is not banned "
  A few weeks later , Fazlul Haq announced that the monument would go." Sarat Bose said why then Subhas Bose had not been released.  

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