'File 11/57 Political Situation in India & Pakistan' [‎7r] (13/26)

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the Legislature considered over 20 official bills, passed the railway
and general budgets and heard a number of important statements of
Government policy on such subjects as Kashmir, Hyderabad, foreign
affairs, refugees, de-control of foodstuffs, and the inter-Dorninion
finaneial agreement•
At the end of the month the Central Committee of the Communist
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Party called for the establishment of "a new democratic front
composed of all Left parties, progressive elements in the Congress
and Muslim League, workers, peasants, students, and middle class
employees' • -Or. R*M« Lohia, a Socialist leader, characterised this
move as an attempt to cover up the disruptive tactics which the
Communists wished to employ. The Communist Party also proclaimed that
all the political resolutions of the All India Congress Committee wore
weak" and that it v/ould need the united efforts of all progressives
to halt the present trend of appeasement of vested interests on the
economic front*
13* Sarat Chandra Bose in Bengal renewed his agitation against the
West Bengal Security Bill and made the Bill an issue to be fought by
his new party, the Socialist Republican party, which is to "carry out
the political programme of Netaji" (Subash Chandra Bose). The Bill in
question would confer special emergency powers on the Lxecutive for the
preservation of public peace. It was violently opposed also by the
Hindu Mahasabha, the Trades Union Congress and the extreme Left.
14* The Hindu Mahasabha and the Sikh leader Master Tara Singh both
dissociated themselves frem the All Indian Congress Committee resolution
on refugees and ridiculed the idea of any minorities returning to
Pakistan.
Hyderabad
lb. A hand grenade was thrown at the Nizam on the 4th December as he
was driving through Hyderabad City but he escaped unhurt. Talks
between the Nizam’s Government and the State Congress Party failed.
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