Haripura, Feb. 19. The busi annual session of the Indian National Congress opened this morning.
The working committee of the Congress passed a resolution saying that the Congress did not desire to precipitate a crisis which might involve non-violent non-ce-operation. it was, therefore, reluctant at present o instruct its Ministers of the other Provinces to present their resignations as a protest against the Viceroy's action.
The resolution invited the Viceroy to reconsider his decision to enable the Governors to act according to the Constitution and to accept the advice of their Ministers in the matter of the release of political prisoners.
The issue of releasing political prisoners resulted this week in the resignation of the Congress Ministry of Bihar and the Cabinet of the United Provinces because the Governor-
General, Lord Linlithgow, refused to agree to an "immediate and indiscriminate release of a body of legally convicted prisoners, including terrorists with the worst police records."—Reuter.
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