Congress politicians actively crushed the rival Social Conference movement through hostility

Evidence

This indifference—this thinning of its ranks—was soon followed by active hostility from the politicians. Under the leadership of the late Mr Tilak, the courtesy with which the Congress allowed the Social Conference the use of its pandal was withdrawn, and the spirit of enmity went to such a pitch that when the Social Conference desired to erect its own pandal, a threat to burn the pandal was held out by its opponents. Thus in the course of time the party in favour of political reform won, and the Social Conference vanished and was forgotten. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 817

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s work on how a political movement suppresses its social-reform rival, anticipating the caste-annihilation story.