‘Be unanimous’ but do not
rise to angry extravagance
Date-
7th January 1945
This years Maharashtra literary
conference was held in Dhule under the presidency of Shri. Mama Varerkar which
made minds of the Dhuliaus and Litereriaus free from the lashes of the
conference.
Parishad - conference clashes were left in air
by mama and next year conference president will also be Parishand president and
before seeing this, ‘I will not even die’ this is what is oath taken by Shri.
warerkar ending the conference speech which was suitable to his image.
Today’s president of Maharashtra
Sahitya Parishad prof. Parishad decided to make some change in the
constitution. The people who had come with mind to fight were calmed.
As soon as the conference ended the
reporters rushed to take interview of prof. Potdar where he said ‘If conference
and Parishad are united these won’t be this huge form of the conference any
more. There are a few places in Maharashtra where there are no of Parishad so
the conference will not be able to be taken there and some other difficulties
which I can seen on this path which others cannot visualize. “This only showed
on which path the thoughts of president of Parishad were.
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad and
conference were started 8 years before similarly the new thought of unanimity
must be solved together while clubbing together the independent institution
what difficulties were faced should also be taken in mind before making changes
in the constitution. We accept that the president of the Sahitya conference should
not just be the ruler for three days but must participate in the agitation of
literature for the whole year. But this would not be the need to merge the Parishad
and conference. This can be satisfied by making a change in rule for electing
the president today Parishad suggests five names and the welcome committee
elects president from them that is in the opinion of the Parishad is already
taken for the election. From now onwards first five names must be suggested by
the Parishad then from them only one name must be put forth by the Parishad and
the welcome committee member and the name which will come forth by the maximum
votes will be the president of the Parishad and conference of that year should
be the rule. Not only this, the welcome committee should elect 4-5 members from
the working committee to the governing committee till the new welcome committee
for the next year is elected which will maintain the relation between the Parishad
and welcome committee.
To avoid the issue of the President
being from other place, the vice Precedent should be from the local place.
Prof. Potdar had a doubt that, if
the Parishad and conference were merged then only the members of the Parishad
could take part and many of the local people are not member of the Parishad so
they would not have that much interest in taking part in the occasion this
should be taken into account by the constituting committee.
If the reception committee members
are deprived of their votes then these will be very less rich people seen taking
part in the conference. If all of them are decided to be taken as the members
of the Parishad then the local members will be more than the present members of
the Parishad and then the decision passed for the votes of any resolution will
be sold on the name of the Sahitya Parishad.
Mama Varerkar will not forget this
view and will not take any decision emotionally before taking any oath because
his oath is to make a unanimous president for the Parishad and conference and
not the union of Parishad and conference.
Instead of concentrating ourselves
only on this matter we must concentrate on other matters like to get acceptance
of the Education department for the exams of Maharashtra Vidyapeeth Parishad
exam, to collect donation of one lakh rupees to improve the standard of Marathi
in Madhya Prant. So will they be able to give an instance that if the President
of Parishad and conference is one and can do a lot good.
Translate by Mrs. Vitasta
Kashikar
