When we started the movement we began with the idea of throwing out the Congress oligarchy and open the whole organization to the general mass. Everything is fixed up before and the people are only allowed to talk over it. Whatever resolutions they pass are obligatory on all the provinces whether the resolutions suit the provinces or not there is no room for any other independent opinion. There is no opportunity for any difference of opinion, except for Socialists who are allowed to differ provided they don't seriously differ. what is it but a Fascist organization? Gandhi is the dictator like Stalin, I won't say like Hitler: what Gandhi says they accept and even the Working Committee follows him then it goes to the All-India Congress Committee which adopts it, and then the Congress. Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches. , & Institut de recherches Г©volutives (Paris). Sri Aurobindo, 1918, quoted from Sri Aurobindo.Tilak was the first to bring it into the actual field of practical politics.

Others, writers, thinkers, spiritual leaders, had seen this truth. To bring in the mass of the people, to found the greatness of the future on the greatness of the past, to infuse Indian politics with Indian religious fervour and spirituality are the indispensable conditions for a great and powerful political awakening in India.

The Congress movement was for a long time purely occidental in its mind, character and methods, confined to the English-educated few, founded on the political rights and interests of the people read in the light of English history and European ideals, but with no roots either in the past of the country or in the inner spirit of the nation.

Sri Aurobindo, August 28, 1893, quoted from Sri Aurobindo.

in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed. that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders. Ambedkar, Pakistan or The Partition of India (1946) This is another malaise, no less acute than the malaise of social stagnation. This policy of appeasement will involve the Hindus in the same fearful situation in which the Allies found themselves as a result of the policy of appeasement which they adopted towards Hitler. The second thing the Congress has failed to realize is that the policy of concession has increased Muslim aggressiveness, and what is worse, Muslims interpret these concessions as a sign of defeatism on the part of the Hindus and the absence of the will to resist. Appeasement sets no limits to the demands and aspirations of the aggressor. On the other hand, settlement means laying down the bounds which neither party to it can transgress. Appeasement means buying off the aggressor by conniving at his acts of murder, rape, arson and loot against innocent persons who happen for the moment to be the victims of his displeasure. The first thing which the Congress has failed to realize is that there is a difference between appeasement and settlement, and that the difference is an essential one.

It seems to me that the Congress has failed to realize two things.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 245-246

Indian National Congress, вЂњIndependence Day Resolution,вЂќ January 20, 1930.We recognize, however, that the most effective way of gaining our freedom is not through violence. We believe that India must sever the British connection and attain purna swarajya, or complete independence.We hold it to be a crime against man and God to submit any longer to the rule that has caused this disaster to our country. The British Government in India has not only deprived the Indian people of their freedom, but has debased it economically, politically, culturally, and spiritually.

Founder of indian national congress