Legislative Assembly Debates. Wednesday 1st March 1933. Official Report

(e) Are not Government aware that the Subjects Committee of the Congress settles the agenda of business to be taken up in the open Session of the Congress and that it is necessary to hold meetings of the Subjects Committee to settle the future programme or even to amend or alter its present programme? [...] A. Hoon: In view of the answers given by the Honourable the Home Member am I to understand that as the Government consider some of the activities of the Congress unconstitutional they are bent upon not allowing the Congress to do anything constitutional? [...] C. S. Ranga Iyer: Are the Government aware that the Congress method of holding the Session is the only method of bringing about a change of opinion in the Congress and that the less spectacular body than the Congress body is the Subjects Committee which is far more influential than the Congress itself where important decisions are taken? [...] The holding of the Congress has a spectacular aspect but besides the spectacular aspect there is something more namely the discussion in the Subjects Committee where the best brains of 'the Congress meet and decide as to what attitude they should take and what changes they should effect in the programme of the Congress and once the decision is taken the Congress is presented with the view of [...] 1399 if on the contrary they want to play into the hands of the civil diobedience people the best way is to drive the iron into their souls to make the people in the country who sympathise with them not to read the White Paper in the cold light of reason and to minimise the possbilities of our reviving the constitutional movement in the manner in which we would like to revive it.