dated August 12, 1950: Communists in India

The Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, said in Parliament on August 11, that the Government's policy towards the Communist Party remained unchanged. Sardar Patel who was replying to a short notice question by Mr. B. L. Sondhi, said that whatever shifts might have taken place in the tactics of the Communist Party, there had been ``absolutely no change'' in their fundamental strategy of ``seizing power through violent revolt.''

Referring to the Communist leader, Mr. S. A. Dange's recent suggestion that ``violent means are not unconstitutional and any suggestion of constitutional means is an innovation in the Constitution of India'', Sardar Patel said amidst cheers that Government would give no quarter to any such attempt and would use ``all the resources at their disposal'' to put it down: This was the unanimous view of all the State Governments, he added.

This paper Editorially observed: ``The Indian Communists, when they executed another of their spectacular `changes' of policy recently, could hardly have believed that the new spread in the sight of the bird would succeed in sharing it. Still it is good to have a clear-cut declaration in Sardar Patel's forthright style that the new party-line cuts no ice with the Government of India. Sardar Patel speaks for the vast mass of peaceable folk in this country when he says that, India has no use for violence, being firmly convinced that figs do not grow on thistles.''

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