Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday November 10 1946

V. G. D PROHIBITION IN C. P. According to the report of the Excise Commisioner for C. P. in the latter half of 1937 the Congress Government in C. P. decided to adopt the policy of total prohibition of liquor including toddy. [...] And is counter-communalism any answer to the communalism of which Congressmen have accused the Muslim League ? Is it Nationalism to seek barbarously to crush the fourteen percent of the Muslims in Bihar ? I do not need to be told that I must not condemn the whole of Bihar for the sake of the sins of a few thousand Bihari. [...] Nayi Talim is a beautiful blend of all the four and covers the whole education of the individual from the time of conception to the moment of death. [...] Why should such things happen when the two parties the Muslim League and the Congress had formed a coalition at the Centre ? Praise or abuse made no difference to the leaders who wanted to serve them to the best of their ability. [...] He drew their attention to the Viceroy's appeal issued in the name of the whole Cabinet of which the Viceroy was the President and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the Vice-Presii and which consisted of both Congress and Muslim League representatives.