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SOCIALISTS NOW INACTIVE
“On his arrival in Bombay, on 21st May 1938 in the course of an interview, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar expressed great satisfaction at the growing support of the people to his Party and their grateful appreciation of his efforts towards abolishing their serfdom.
He said that in its own way his Independent Labour Party was striving to redeem its election pledges, but if the Congress Ministry refused to give relief through constitutional methods, and if people’s faith in it was thus lost, the alternative was obvious. He, however, was surprised at the attitude of the Socialists, who, he said, had been all those years shouting for the confiscation of all Zamindari lands and the abolition of the capitalist system, but now inactive when a concrete Bill was brought forward to put an end to the Khoti system.” [1]
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1 : Keer, P.310.