WHEN THE FIRST elected President of the Central Legislative Assembly (now Speaker of the Lok Sabha) Vithalbhai Patel ruled that the Public Safety Bill could not be taken up by the Legislative Assembly, the then Viceroy of India, by exercising his special powers, issued an ordinance to enforce it. Mahatma Gandhi charged that the Viceroy thereby proved the futility of the legislatures. In an article ‘Viceroy’s Ire’ published in the Navajivan on Ap…
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