The Resolution on National Economic Programme

included—

* substantial reduction in rent and revenue in the case of landholders and peasants

* exemption from rent for uneconomic holdings

* relief from agricultural indebtedness

* control of usury

* better conditions of work including a living wage, limited hours of work and protection of women workers in the industrial sector

* right to workers and peasants to form unions

* state ownership and control of key industries, mines and means of transport

This was the first time the Congress spelt out what swaraj would mean for the masses—”in order to end exploitation of masses, political freedom must include economic freedom of starving millions.”

The Karachi Resolution was to remain, in essence, the basic political and economic programme of the Congress in later years.