Dec 23 1946: 54th SESSION- MEERUT, 1946
CONGRESS SESSIONS AT A GLANCE
54th SESSION- MEERUT, 1946
President - ACHARYA J. B. KRIPALANI.
Chairman of the Reception Committee: CHAUDHARY RAGHUBIR NARAIN SINGH
General Secretaries: MARIDULA SARABHAI AND DR. B.V. KDSKAR.
DELEGATES: 2,950.
DETAILS OF THE SESSION
This session to be held after 6 years was to be organized on a grand scale as the 'Diamond Jubilee Session', but owing to the breakout of communal riots at this time in Meerut, only a small session confined to delegates and few visitors was actually held. The Reception Committee arrangements had to be cancelled in the main. No. exhibition was held. Representatives of Indian Overseas and others attended this Congress, from Fiji, Malaya, Singapore, British Guiana, Kenya and India League in London. Large number of visitors attended the session and the AICC Pandal where the open session was also held full to the capacity. The Nagar was marked by artistic gateways erected by a batch from Santiniketan under the direction of Nandita Kripalani and the life in the Nagar was enlivened by the INA orchestra and stage plays under Capt. Ram Singh of the INA General Shah Nawaz was in charge of the volunteers corps and turned out a very impressive rally. The Congress was held when the League had joined the Interim Government and the riots had begun to spread.
Condolence resolution took note of many deaths of great leaders in the past years, P.Malviya, Vijayaraghavachariar, Srinivasa Iyengar, Rabindranath Tagore, Jamnalal Bazaz, Bhulabhai Desai, Satyamurty, Shiv Prasad Gupta, R.S. Pandit, and several others. A retrospective resolution reviewed the events of the past six years and a half, payed its homage to those who had died or suffered for the country and took note of the suffering of the people during war years, by repression, maladministration and famine. It expressed alarm at the trends of international developments and at the appearance of the atomic bomb as a new weapon of war, and expressed once again the Congress ideal of peace and international justice and peace. The Congress ratified the decision of the Working Committee with regard to Constituent Assembly and Interim Government. There were resolutions on South and East Africa and of greetings to Indonesian Republic, and on the States. The Congress adopted the principles and programme in the Congress Electon Manifesto and the August Resolution with Regard to the contents of Swaraj. The resolution on communal strife expressed horror at the happenings in Bengal, Bihar and parts of Meerut District and lay the responsibility on the preaching of hatred and violence for political purposes. The Congress warned the country against such propaganda and urged the necessity of security and rehabilitation. Resolution on changes in Congress Constitution authorised the AICC to make amendments to make Congress more widely representative of the pople.
PRESIDENT: ACHARYA J. B. KRIPALANI
Devoted his early life as educationist. Professor in Muzaffarnpur College in Bihar. Associated with Gandhiji in Champaran Satyagrah. Greatly influenced the Youth in favour of National service in Bihar. Later joined Benares Hindu University in 1919. Was in charge of Gujarat Vidyapith 1922-27. Organised and ran the Merrut Gandhi Ashram center of constructive work. Service in Bihar Earthquake. General Secretary of the Congress 1934-46. Married Sucheta in 1934. Author of books on Gandhian ideology. Last imprisonment in 1942 August movement. President of the Congress in 1946. Resigned Congress Presidentship in November 1947 on important issues of policy of the Congress Government
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