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dated June 19, 1956: Congress and Govt.

Prime Minister Nehru told a conference of Congressmen at Narora (Uttar Pradesh) on June 17 that they had to follow a middle path in regard to the relationship between the party in power and the day-to-day administration of the country - a compromise between the systems followed in Britain on the one had and in Russia and China on the other. He said it would be difficult to frame rigid rules on the problem of co-ordination between the Congress and the Government. In countries like Britain, the Conservative Party or the Labour Party did not have much connection with the administrative machinery. In countries like the Soviet Russia and China, on the other hand, the Communist Party itself was the Government. Some speakers at the conference had laid the blame for the weakening of the Congress at the doors of the administration, but he reminded them that, soon after taking over power, the Congressmen had embarrassed the Government servants by putting tall demands on them. He felt that as a result of the mass contact with the people in the course of their work on the development projects, the officers were becoming popular and this some Congressmen seemed to resent. He felt the basic cause of weakness of the organisation was the character of Congressmen themselves.

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