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Plea for national government

2014-05-29
MADRAS: The need for sending only the trusted representatives of the country, Mr. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who could speak with the whole of India`s authority behind them, to any future peace conference was reiterated by Rt. Hon. V.S. Srinivasa Sastri, presiding over a public meeting tonight [May 28]. If this privilege was denied, he would be led to think, he said, that the Britishers did not mean really to give Indians any benefit, but merely wanted to maintain them in the same status, where they were.

Mr. Sastri wanted that the Government at the Centre and in the Provinces should be nationalised and stressed the need for general elections for that purpose. [Meanwhile,] at a largely attended meeting held on Friday, May 19, in the Jama Masjid of Paharganj, Musalmans of Paharganj passed two resolutions in connection with the historic grave-yards of Nabi-e-Karim and Shah Waqib-ullah graveyard in Delhi. The said grave-yards which occupy a large area are reported to have been taken possession of by the community of grave-diggers who sell, transfer and bequeath tracts of land within the grave-yard as if it were their own property. (Dawn, Delhi)