Second Saadulah ministry
1939 cabinet in the Indian province of Assam
The Second Saadulah provincial government was the Cabinet of Assam Province headed by Prime Minister of Assam Muhammed Saadulah from 1939 to 1941.
History
Following the resignation of the Bordoloi government, Muhammed Saadulah formed a coalition government. The previous government had resigned in objection to the Second World War, but Saadulah was a support of the British.
In December 1941, Congress leaders including Bordoloi were released from prison and became determined to remove Saadulah from his position.
In protest against a government circular for the participation of students in a War Fund Exhibition, around 2500 students of Cotton College staged a protest at Guwahati Judge Field on 6 December. Police attacked students with a lathi charge. Numerous schools and colleges were on three-day sympathy strikes in Assam, as well as in Calcutta. Education Minister Rohini Kumar Chaudhuri resigned on 9 December in protest against the police action.
Before his resignation, Rohini Kumar Chaudhuri had entered into a secret pact with Bordoloi in which Congress would support Chaudhuri in a forming a stable government but would be neutral in matters related to the war effort. Another condition in the agreement was that the executive officers responsible for the lathi charge would be suspended.
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