Activity 2 Congress for All Read the following brief, modified version of a speech given by Badruddin Tyabji, the president of the Indian National Congress in 1887, and answer the questions that follow. He mentioned that the Congress was composed of the representatives of different classes and communities of India. It, therefore, represented various communities of India. 1. Whom did the Indian National Congress represent? 2 Despite having educated Indians as its members in the initial stage, why do you think Tyabji wanted the Congress to represent different classes and communities of the country?
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Rajah Sir T. Madhava Rao and Gentlemen, -- I thank you most sincerely for the very great honour you have done me by electing me President of this great national assembly. Gentlemen, it is impossible not to feel proud of the great distinction you have thus conferred upon me, the greatest distinction which it is in your power to confer upon any one of your countrymen. Gentlemen, I have had the honour of witnessing great public meetings both in Bombay and elsewhere, but it is quite a novel sensation for me to appear before a meeting of this description -- a meeting composed not merely of the representatives of any one city or even of one province, but of the whole of the vast Continent of India; representing not any one class or interest, but all classes and all interests of the almost innumerable different communities that constitute the people of India.
Gentlemen, I had not the good fortune to be present at the proceedings of the first Congress held in Bombay in 1885, nor had I the good fortune to take part in the deliberations of the second Congress held in Calcutta last year. But, Gentlemen, I have carefully read the proceedings of both those Congresses, and I have no hesitation in declaring that they display an amount of talent, wisdom, and eloquence of which we have every reason to be proud.
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Gentlemen, from the proceedings of the two past Congresses, I think we are fairly entitled to hope that the proceedings of this present Congress will not only be marked by those virtues, but by the moderation and by that sobriety of judgment which is the offspring of political wisdom and political experience. Gentlemen, all the friends and well-wishers of India, and all those who take an interest in watching over the progress and prosperity of our people, have every reason to rejoice at the increasing success of each succeeding Congress.
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