Write a brief boat on the swarajya party?
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Background
After the Chauri Chaura incident, Mahatma Gandhi withdrew the non-cooperation movement in 1922.
This was met with a lot of disagreements among leaders of the Congress Party.
While some wanted to continue non-cooperation, others wanted to end the legislature boycott and contest elections. The former were called no-changers and such leaders included Rajendra Prasad, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, C Rajagopalachari, etc.
The others who wanted to enter the legislative council and obstruct the British government from within were called the pro-changers. These leaders included C R Das, Motilal Nehru, Srinivasa Iyengar, etc.
In 1922, in the Gaya session of the Congress, C R Das (who was presiding over the session) moved a proposal to enter the legislatures but it was defeated. Das and other leaders broke away from the Congress and formed the Swaraj Party.
C R Das was the President and the Secretary was Motilal Nehru.
Prominent leaders of the Swaraj Party included N C Kelkar, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Subhas Chandra Bose.
Aims of the Swaraj Party
Attaining dominion status.
Obtaining the right to frame a constitution.
Establishing control over the bureaucracy.
Obtaining full provincial autonomy.
Attaining Swarajya (self-rule).
Getting people the right to control government machinery.
Organising industrial and agricultural labour.
Controlling the local and municipal bodies.
Having an agency for propaganda outside the country.
Establishing a federation of Asian countries to promote trade and commerce.
Engaging in the constructive programmes of the Congress.
Work of the Swaraj Party
Gandhiji and both the pro-changers and the no-changers realised the importance of putting up a united front in order to get reforms from the government.
So, it was decided that the Swarajists would contest elections as a separate ‘group’ within the Congress Party.
The Swaraj Party won 42 out of 104 seats to the Central Legislature in 1923.
The party’s programme was to obstruct the government. They wanted to create deadlocks on every measure.
They boycotted all official functions and receptions held by the government.
They voiced their grievances and aspirations in the Legislative Assembly.