Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is more likely to be the subsequent Congress President. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad who has held this workplace for six years now-the longest interval for any particular person to be Congress President-in an announcement on Friday declared that below the current circumstances, Pandit Nehru is your best option. He provides that his colleagues within the Working Committee share his view.

Maulana Azad says: “Now that the election of Congress delegates from the completely different provinces is over and the time has come for the selection of President for the subsequent 12 months. I take into account it my obligation to put my views on the query earlier than the general public. Ever since I got here out of jail there have been solutions from numerous quarters that I ought to proceed as President for one more 12 months. I’ve tried to discourage such strikes and for causes which I shall now place earlier than the general public. I’ve borne the obligations of Congress President for over six years repeatedly, a interval that was unprecedented within the historical past of the Congress. Circumstances have been such that this was inevitable and I’ve tried to discharge my duties and serve my nation to the perfect of my capacity. Now, nevertheless. I need to ask to be excused.

“After considering all aspects of the question, it is my belief that the person best suited to carry out these duties in the changed circumstances is Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. This is my personal opinion, but I am glad to find from informal discussions with friends and colleagues that they share my opinion. The choice. however, is with the delegates and they are free to exercise their right as they will.”

The Congress President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad had an hour’s convention with Mahatma Gandhi early on Friday morning earlier than by issued his directive to the Congress delegates recommending the identify of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru for the Congress presidentship for the subsequent 12 months.

Opinion in Congress High Command circles is that as quickly as the results of the Congress presidential election is thought a gathering of the All-India Congress Committee can be referred to as at Bombay concerning the starting of June and at that assembly the brand new President will take over cost of the affairs of the Congress from the retiring President. Normally the brand new President takes over cost on the eve of the plenary session of the Congress however owing to the irregular situations to the nation the annual plenary session of the Congress “has been delayed and due to this fact the newly elected President is to take cost of the workplace on the subsequent assembly of the All-India Congress Committee.

The All-India Congress Committee itself can be a brand new physique and, in line with the Congress structure it’s competent to transact all of the enterprise of the Congress. Nowhere within the Congress structure is it laid down that the change-over from one President to a different must be made solely on the plenary session of the Congress.

The new All-India Congress Committee when it meets in Bombay within the first week of June, can be referred to as upon to endorse no matter resolution the Congress Working Committee arrives at in regard to the current political negotiations with the British Cabinet Mission.