In the previous post, we read about the Gandhi-Irwin pact and its consequences. Now, in this post, we are going to discuss the Karachi Session of the Indian National Congress in 1931.
Karachi Session of 1931
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel presided over the Karachi Session of the Indian National Congress in 1931. In this session of the Indian National Congress following demands were considered as goals for Independence,
- Complete Independence, previously INC was asking for the dominion status. But after the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, Complete Independence became the slogan of the Indian National Congress.
- The eminent leaders of Congress also defined complete independence. The complete independence included sovereignty of the nation. Protection and promotion of minorities. Compulsory education also became the demand of nationalists.
- In the Karachi Session of INC, leaders also demanded the fundamental rights of the people.
New Economic Policy
New Economic Policy from the platform of Congress came. This promised the protection of the rights of labourers and farmers. The reason was to win the heart of this group also. Because everybody was in deep sorrow after the hanging of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru.
After this Gandhi left for Britain to attend Second Round Table Conference.
Second Round Table Conference
Round Table Conference was an invitation to Indian Political Parties to discuss a new set of political reforms to be given to Indians as per the promise of the Government of India Act of 1919.
Indian National Congress denied attending First Round Table Conference in 1929. Though the invitation was for all the important parties. But still, INC did not send their representative to attend First Round Table. So, in the Second Round Table, after the Gandhi-Irwin Pact, Gandhi went to Britain to attend Second Round Table Conference as a representative of the Indian National Congress.
Since the birth of the Indian National Congress and other parties, they all were demanding different things from the Government. The groups that participated in the Second Round Table Conference were,
During the time of the Second Round Table Conference, Ramsay MacDonald was the British Prime Minister. He gave the following proposals to Gandhi,
- India will be a federation.
- Share to Indians in Centre Government.
- Separate electorate to depressed class!!!!!!
The last proposal broke down the talk between the government and Gandhi. So, Gandhi once again boycotted Third Round Table Conference.
This was all about the Karachi Session and Second Round Table Conference. In the coming post, we shall read about the Communal Award and How Gandhi dealt with it.
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