Godmother(1999)Politics of iNDIA

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Godmother(1999)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravishankar_Shukla While imprisoned Pandit Shukla was again elected president of Raipur District Council on 24 October 1930. Angered on this the State Government on 19 October 1930 by an extra-ordinary gazette took over the Raipur District Council for three years. The Government stopped all the patriotic programmes run by the District Council under Pandit Shukla. On 8 March 1934 the Council's work was again handed over to Pandit Shukla. He got all the programmes of the Council restarted which were closed by the Government. To infuse national awakening in the State Pandit Shukla started a Weekly Hindi Magazine Mahakoshal from Nagpur in 1935.Next year this was shifted to Raipur from where it is now published as a prominent Daily. With the emphasis of Congress on encouraging the Legislature and the Executive, Pandit Shukla decided to consolidate the Raipur District Council. On 9th, 10th and 11 December 1935 the Council organised a conference which was inaugurated by Pandit Makhan Lal Chaturvedi and the closing session was addressed by the Congress President Babu Rajendra Prasad. In the conference organised by the District Council next year on 15 December 1936, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru was the special invitee. Welcoming him Pandit shukla said,"The State Government is not liking the independent working of the Council and is trying to bring in such lagislation so as to jeoperdise the freedom and effectiveness of such institutions in the State, but very soon the public of the State will give an appropriate reply to the British Rulers".Later when Pandit Shukla joined the State Cabinet as Education & Agriculture Minister he resigned from the Raipur District Council and a devout Congressman of Raipur Mahant Laxmi Narayan Das took over the presidentship of the Council. Until independence the locus of power in the Indian National Congress clearly rested with the Congress President and his Working Committee. With the formation of the Interim Government, however, the Congress was faced with the critical problem of determining how the Congress movement could be adopted to its dual role in the new republic. Specifically what was to be the relation between the Congress in its new function as ruling party and the Congress in its other function as mass organisation ? In the process of evolving a workable relationship between the two, the Congress was confronted by demands from the mass movement for the direct control of the parliamentary leadership and the government policy-making process. In course of time the interim government members became disillusioned with Kriplani. Nehru decided to set down his views on patterns of coordination between working committee and the government in the future. He drafted a top secret memorandum for circulation only to Kriplani, Sardar Patel, Rajendra Prasad, Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla, C. Rajgopalachari, and Gandhiji a procedure which illustrates quite vividly the power distribution existing in the Congress. Gandhiji knew that Kriplani has lost the confidence of his colleagues in the government and agreed that he would eventually have to step down. The selection of the Kriplanis successor was complicated by the inability of the big three of the Congress Nehru, Patel, and Gandhiji—to agree on a single candidate.