The Foundation Years
Demand for Equitable Government through Administrative Reforms Indian National Congress
Concern for the removal of Poverty.
Resolution deploring :
- The growing impoverishment of the people
- The wealth of the country being drained away
- The condition of the ryots steadily deterioration since 1848 nearly 40 million people having only one meal a day and sometimes not even that
- Annual Sessions of the Congress Party held in different venues every year
- Provincial Conferences organized to foster country-wide involvement
- Concrete steps taken to organize Public Opinion in Great Britain in favor of the Indian viewpoint
- Thrust on seeking Representation in Government
- Madan Mohan Malaviya – “No taxation without representation”