(EDITORIAL) A defeat a day cannot scare the Government away so long as the power of certification is there to override popular veto. The three successive defeats inflicted on the Government in the Assembly are, however, not without purpose when they have advertised in no unmistakable terms the failure of official policy. To escape a financial deadlock is possible for the Government by recourse to the Viceregal powers to flout the decisions of the Legislature, but the political deadlock continues, notwithstanding the Home Member’s dictionary definitions to prove its non-existence … Except for outworn careerists who hug the continuance of the British domination as one of the inevitabilities of history since it affords them a chance to gather the loaves and fishes of office, there is none among Indians who can rest complacent with the present position.

To hold forth that it was Hindu-Muslim differences that precluded any transfer of power has been the British attitude, though the bubble was nearly pricked by the Deputy Leader of the Muslim League Party who framed the awkward poser whether the Government would respect the united opposition to the Government’s Budget proposals … The political sniping in the Assembly has little effect when casualties look forward to the viceroy for a resurrection of the dead.… — Dawn Delhi

Published in Dawn, March 19th, 2019