Word: kripalani
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...party came when Purushottamdas Tandon, an orthodox Hindu, managed to get himself elected Congress president last year. Tandon is a right-winger in resolute control of Congress' political machines. Nehru does not like him. In a moment of pique after his election, Nehru backed Jiwatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, a left-winger and disciple of Gandhi, to start an opposition movement against Tandon. The movement grew bigger and louder than Nehru had intended. Whereupon the Prime Minister did exactly what he does on international issues: he climbed on the fence, refused to back either Tandon or Kripalani...
Cried Congress Party President Acharya Kripalani: "The real solution of the whole ill lies with Pakistan itself." In calling itself an Islamic state, he said, Pakistan had incited Moslems against Sikhs and Hindus, thus drawing reprisals upon Moslems in India. "[We must] base citizenship on a territorial basis and forget . . . that two-nation theory which started the whole vicious circle...
Down a jungle walk on Bengal's marshy coast last week, two Indian political leaders stalked solemnly away from Mohandas K. Gandhi's in-roofed hut, burned out in recent communal rioting. They were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and President Acharya Kripalani of the All-India Congress Party. Hindu women blew conch shells, and thousands of devotees showered the two leaders with flowers...
Well might Nehru and Kripalani look solemn. As India seemed to teeter on the brink of bloodshed, they were returning to New Delhi, to face the Congress organization's toughest problem: to accept or reject the British version of how the Constituent Assembly should be run (TIME, Dec. 16). With Nehru and Kripalani went Gandhi's blessing and ad vice. They would not say whether the Mahatma had recommended concessions that might win Mohamed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League to Assembly participation...
...dared hope that Gandhi's saintly pilgrimage would influence more than a handful of Moslems. But few, doubted this week that it was his New Year's advice which Nehru and Kripalani ex pressed in a Congress resolution that gave a well-hedged "yes" to the British pro posal, and opened the door to Jinnah for a face-saving entry into the Assembly...