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The political prisoners have demanded repatriation to India from the Andamans. Their demand is just and modest. When the power is not responsible to the people of this country, it is only natural that the people will be apprehensive of the treatment that is meted out to political prisoners exiled in an island thousands of miles away from India and demand that these political prisoners should be kept in India where at least some kind of popular control can be exercised to soften the inhuman rigour of prison life in India. It appears that the Government of India have shifted their own responsibilities regarding the question of repatriation of the Andaman prisoners on to the shoulders of the Bengal Government. Moreover, the Government of India have rejected the petition of the political prisoners on the plea of their inability to consider the collective petition of all prisoners. Cnce again the heartless inflexibility of the Government machinery has triumphed over its sense of humanity and justice. In those Provinces of India where the representatives of the people have taken up the reins of administration, political prisoners have been unconditionally released and all encroachment on the civil liberty of the people has been removed. © Ꮼ ☾