 I was closely involved in the preparation of the defence case, an immense and tedious job, and in the politics of the jail and the party outside.I gradually lost interest in all three, and became absorbed in reading and writing on other subjects… I have no doubt that here was the beginning of an emotional turn away from communism.” 

In December 1934 he was arrested again and interned under the emergency legislation passed to suppress Civil Disobedience.He spent 18 months in the Fort at Belgaum, and was released finally in June 1936.