Gandhi did not attend Tripuri, but his Loyalists had come prepared to disrupt the president’s agenda. At the outset, Govind Vallabh Pant stood up and proposed a resolution to ‘request the President to nominate the Working Committee in accordance with the wishes of Gandhiji’.27 This was followed by a heated debate. Subhas’s supporters pointed out that it was unfair to ask an elected president to select his team based entirely on the wishes of a person who was not present and was not even formally a member of the INC. In many ways, this was like a repeat of the unseemly spat between the
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