Vigil - An Independent Political Weekly Saturday February 3 1951

The prevailing atmosphere in the country is such thanks to the lack of any positive measures to combat nepotism corrution maladministration and the spiralling cost of living that the people are inclined to look upon the vote as a toy or a trinket which may be bartered in expectation of a subsequent favour. [...] Now that the date of the elections has been announced the foremost duty devolving upon the leaers is to bestow some time on the political education of the electorate in order that they may realise the sovereign power of the suffrage and the very vast responsibilities which rest on the common man and the common woman by the intelligent use of his or her vote in the guidance of the country's [...] be totally unpolitical by diHowever it you needs must position or he may be utterly taste the fruif *of the new indifferent to the virtues or Ram-Raj you have only to vices of the new dispensation look out of the window and but the moment he decides to spot a new specimen of the catch the train as he must Railway-official gentry sauone day or the other he finds tering upand down the pl [...] Had the bands been As a gesture of goodwill toz interspersed in between the Indian culture on the occasion procession and had they aiiof the Independence Day a ed with feeling the march distinguished club the hauAt past of the army units would of the elite of Delhi organised have evoked cheers from the a demonstration of the Gucrowds lined on both sides of rati folk-dances—the Raas and t [...] The charter of the British Broadcasting Corporation will expire at the end of this year and the Government has made this the opportunity for apointing a committee of equiry of which Lord Bevridge is chairman to make recommendations for the future of broadcasting in this country.