Word: azad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year term about up, Saint Gandhi looked around for a more tractable successor. Complicating factor, however, was that the President decided to run for another term, thus openly challenging the Gandhi leadership for the first time. First Gandhi nominee was bearded Persian Scholar Moulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Mohammedan. He promptly withdrew after being hooted out of a meeting. Nominee No. 2 was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Gandhi's right-hand man. He also withdrew. Final choice was Dr. Patthabhi Sitaramayya of Madras, who received Saint Gandhi's and the Congress high command's endorsement, election seemed...
Successor to Vallabhai Patel is Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. Last week for the first time since Saint Gandhi's march to the sea, Civil Disobedience was led by a Mohammedan...