THE DELHI RESOLUTIONS.
[The All-India Congress Committee met at Delhi on the 25th February and passed resolutions 'with important modifications on the Bardoli decisions of the Working Committee- Mr. Gandhi explains in the following article in Young India of March 2,1922, how the Bardoli programme came to be modified.]
The session just past of the All-India Congress Committee was in some respects more memorable than the Congress. There is so much under-current of vio- lence, both conscious and unconscious, that I was actually and literally praying for a disastrous defeat. I have always been in a minority. The reader does not know that in South Africa I started with practical unanimity, reached a minority of sixty-four and even sixteen and went up again to a huge majority. The best and the most solid work was done in the wilderness of minority.
[The following resolution was p'assed on the 25th February at the session of the All-India Congress Committee held at Delhi :-
The All-India Congress Committee having carefully considered the resolutions passed by the Working Committee at its meeting held at Bardoli on the llth and 12th instant, confirms the said resolutions with the modifications noted therein and further resolves that individual Civil Disobedience whether of a defensive or aggressive character may be commenced in respect of particular places or particular laws at the instance of and upon permission being granted therefor by the respective Provincial Committee ; provided that such Civil Disobedience shall not be permitted unless all the conditions laid down by the Congress or the All-India Congress Committee or the Working Committee are strictly fulfilled.
Reports having been received from various quarters that
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