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Since its Inception the Indian National Congress has been the voice of resurgent India. Even before the days of a mass electorate, it spoke with authority on behalf of the people of India. Its founding fathers reflected Indian public opinion at its best. They represented all the geographical regions and ethnic and religious diversities of the country. The intellectual distinction and moral eminence of leaders of the Congress like Dadabhai Naoroji, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Badruddin Tyabji, Surendranath Banerjea and Subramania Iyer were such that the people looked upon the Congress ad the Parliament of the emerging Indian nation. The Congress addressed itself to basic socio-political and economic issues. Its deliberations moulded a new national public. In the early years to Congress was still a reformist rather than a revolutionary organization. But the then foreign rulers had a healthy respect for it.
Like a mountain torrent that becomes a major river on entering the plains, the Indian National Congress received tributaries from all over the country and became the established political mainstream of the land. There were few persons of standing in any part of the country who did not own allegiance to it. After the Swadeshi Movement, its mass base widened, under the impulse of men like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai. With the end of World War I, the Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh, the pace of political change quickened. Mahatma Gandhi burst upon the nation. In Jawaharlal Nehru’s words:
He was like a powerful current of fresh air that made us stretch ourselves and take deep breaths, like a beam of light that pierced the darkness and removed the scales from our eyes, like the whirlwind that upset many things but most of all the working of people’s minds….He did not descend from the top; he seemed to emerge from the millions of Indians speaking their language and incessantly drawing attention to them and their appalling condition.
The Congress came to be of the people not merely for the people. It placed the thunderbolt of non-violent action in the hands of the deprived. Satyagraha gave giants’ strength to the weak. It marked India’s mental liberation and undermined the rulers’ moral authority. The law was no longer what the rulers laid down but what the people were ready to accept as just.
The manner in which Mahatma Gandhi was able to enlist the participation of the people of India in days before the mass media bespoke of his political genius. Every great leader is a great persuader. The Congress under Mahatma Gandhi welded the people of India into a political entity in spite of the multiplicity of languages, in spite of illiteracy, and in spite of the colonial Government’s efforts to discredit it thorough its loyal cadres. But Gandhiji and the Congress succeeded because they knew what causes to take up and how to relate politics to the people’s needs, and the nation’s value system. Above all they succeeded because the people felt convinced that the Congress had righteousness on its side, while the ruling power only had brute force.
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