The Justice party was loyal to the British empire . In its early years , Justice opposed the Home Rule Movement . It did not send representatives to the Central Legislative Assembly , the national parliamentary body . During 1916 – 20 , it focused on obtaining communal representation and participating in the political process . During the non-cooperation period , it joined with the '' Madras Mail '' in opposing and denouncing Gandhi and the nationalists . Sir Theagaraya Chetty , President of the party from 1916 to 1924 , publicly expressed his view on the floor of the assembly that " political prisoners were worser than dacoits and robbers " amidst opposition from nationalists including members of his own party as A. P. Patro . The then Justice Party government headed by the Raja of Panagal banned the publication and distribution of poems written by Indian nationalist Subramanya Bharathy . However , by the mid-1920s , the party adopted more nationalist policies . It discarded its earlier disdain of spinning thread by hand and Swadeshi economics . In 1925 , the party 's annual confederation passed a resolution supporting " indigenous industries " and " swadeshi enterprise " . This shift enabled Justice to better compete against Swaraj to whom Justice was slowly losing ground . The term " Swaraj " ( or self-rule ) itself was included in the constitution . Madras branch president C. R. Reddy led this change . To Justicites , '' Swaraj '' meant partial self-government under British rule , not independence . The constitution stated : " . . to obtain '' Swaraj '' for India as a component of the British Empire at as early a date as possible by all peaceful and legitimate and constitutional means . . " The historical record does not clearly indicate whether Justice condemned the Jallianwala Bagh massacre . The party 's shift toward nationalist policies was reversed in the 1930s , during the terms of Munusamy Naidu and Raja of Bobbili . During the civil disobedience campaign , the Justice governments did not protest the polices ' harsh measures . However , with nationalism growing in the country and a string of Congress victories in local elections in 1934 , the party reversed course again towards nationalism . Justice turned to Periyar E. V. Ramaswamy as its champion . Ramaswamy had drifted away in the early 1930s . In exchange for their support in campaigning and propaganda , the Justicites included the Self-Respect movement 's socialist " Erode " program in their election manifesto . The new program had much in common with Congress ' nationalist policies such as Prohibition
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
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