Independent India 12th December 1937

The Local Bod ies should concerned not merely with the repair and maintenance of roads or the building of school-houses or the preservtion of sanitation but with the entire administration of the locality including the preservation of law and order. [...] The problem of the creed of our movement therefore should be approached neither with the spirit of blind coformism nor with the prejudice of the different kind but critically with the object of solving it in the light of all relevant facts and undesirable realities. [...] The cirsulae makes it clear that the Government officers are the executive of the Government ; they are the agents through whom the orders of the policy of the Government is to be given a concrete shape and there can be no question of substituting any other agency for this purpose. [...] The Communist Party of the Soviet Union all along supported the activities of the C. I. Therefore the charge that under the leadership of Stein the Communist Party of Russia paid only lip_alvice to the cause of world revolution is utterly unfourWd. [...] A change from the state of subjugation to freedom from the state of industrial backwardness to modernisation (meaning prosperity and progress for the great bulk of the Indian population) from the state of backward means of production and antiquated system of ownership in land to modern ones and to a system of land-ownership vested into the democratic state representing the will of the people of