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dated January 21, 1955: Nehru warns partymen

Prime Minister Nehru has asked Congressmen not to close their eyes to the fact that a lot of "impurities" do exist in the Congress organisation from which even some of the "highest people in the party hierarchy are not immune." At the Congress Subjects Committee meeting at Satyamurthinagar (Avadi) on January 20, Mr. Nehru was intervening in the debate on the resolution moved by Mr. Morarji Desai on purity and strengthening the organisation. Referring to the point made earlier by Mr. Algurai Shastri that the resolution should not publicise the malpractices that had crept into the Congress, Mr. Nehru said this approach was completely wrong. "I have heard the speeches made by delegates. Mr. Algurai Shastri has said that in one paragraph of the resolution we have criticised ourselves and thereby put the noose round our necks which other people might use to drag us with. But this has no relation to the resolution. I say that the resolution is appropriate, full sixteen annas in the rupee. I say, and say it with a challenge, that the atmosphere in the Congress is not good and pure. After all what is the yardstick with which we are going to measure our work and ourselves? I have been President of the Congress and I know from personal experience that there is a lot of impurity in the Congress and even some of the biggest Congressmen are a party to it. Why should we hide these things? Are we to live behind purdah and wear a veil? Mr. Algural Shastri has himself talked to me several times about these impure trends in the Congress and expressed his regret about them. If any member wants to suggest an amendment to the resolution, by all means he can do it, but we must face our weaknesses and drawbacks and the impure trends that have crept in, truthfully and honestly," Mr. Nehru said.

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