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Legislative Assembly Debates Thursday 30th March 1933 Official Report

1933

I will read the language of the (White Paper : Unless occasion arises for the exercise of the Governor General's special powers it will.. be for the Minister and the Minister alone to take decision on all such matters as the means to be used for raising the necessary revenues for allocating expenditure in the responsible field and for the programme of external and internal borrowing." The Fin [...] The Instrument of Instructions says: " The White Paper will also formally recognise the fact that the defence of India must to an increasing extent be the concern of the Indian people and not of the British Government alone." I admit herein we find something in the nature of an emerging as it were from the old position —some appearance of emerging. [...] If there are safeguards there will be the temptation to use the safeguards; and the only way to overcome a temptation is to yield to it" (Laughter) and it will not only be the Governor General in the Centre or the Governors in the Provinces but also the Congress people who will yield to the temptation; though. [...] The Congress people will revive their own warlike ferocious slogans enter the Legislature and capture the fort of the bureaucracy and induce the Viceroy to use his over-riding powers to make the exercise of these overiding powers normal so that responsibility or the mockery of that responsbility could be exposed; and the Congressmen in the Provinces will say that the over-riding power tha [...] The battle will be between the Governor on the one side and all that he stands for and the Law and Order Minister on the other with all the resources of a Government responsible to the people.
government politics public policy
Pages
69
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
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Legislative Assembly Debates Thursday 30th March 1933 Official Report
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