FROM MOTILAL NEHRU
Arrah,
February 29,
1920
My dear Jawahar,
Harkishenlal arrived this morning
and is leaving tonight byPassenger at 8 p. m. for Allahabad. Your wire saying
that Indira is well and that you are leaving for Bombay tomorrow morning just
to hand. I have wired to inform you that Harkishenlal will arrive early
tomorrow morning and stay for a few hours. He is
proceeding to
Delhi by the Express. I am giving this letter to him. Harkishenlal, Das, and I
have had a long talk over and after a belated breakfast on various Panjab affairs,
and also the political situation generally. Harkishenlal will tell you the
decisions we have arrived at. Please take him round to the Independent Office and
let him form a
first hand idea of the chaos which prevails there. He has promised to send us
the men as soon as he arrives in Lahore.
I do not know for how long you are
going to Bombay. I wish you would return as soon as possible. Did you do
anything about the supplying of particulars to the Plaintiff in the Bombay
case? If not, please attend to this matter personally.
Gandhiji is going to make an
important pronouncement about his own position in politics. I have already written to you on the subject. Das agrees
with me in what I have said. We had a talk about it among other things this
morning. That Gandhiji is going to take up an attitude not in complete accord
with Congress
resolutions is
fairly clear. Our only grievance is that while he has evidently taken Shastri
and Malaviya into his confidence he has left us severely alone. However we have
to wait and watch for the new light. It will then be for us to consider whether we shall take it for our guide or
not. This is the decision I had arrived
at when I wrote to you on the subject last. I put it to Das this morning
and he agreed with me but made a special point of my telling you that the idea
of the grievance did not originate with him and that he has only taken it up
from me. He thinks he is being maligned to Gandhiji behind his back and,
therefore, wishes me
to make special mention of this.
Your loving
FATHER
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