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PM Modi! Hindutva Gang Not Congress Colluded with Muslim League in
Pre-Independence India
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PM describes himself as ‘Hindu’ nationalist and a member of RSS. He proudly
shares the fact that he was groomed to be a political leader by one of the two fathers
of the Hindutva politics, MS Golwalkar (the other being VD Savarkar) and given the task of establishing Hindutva
polity in India after eradicating secularism.
PM
Modi in the eyes of Hindutva bigots represents the resurgent Hinduism and
defender of Hindu nationalism against its enemies. The pre-Independence Muslim
League led by MA Jinnah is a favourite punching bag for him which also helps
him in spreading hatred against Indian Muslims. In any election PM takes the
form of a relentless warrior against Muslim separatism. Reacting to the release
of Indian National Congress’ manifesto for the forthcoming parliamentary
elections in an election rally in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh (which has a
substantial population of Muslims and history of religious polarization) he
declared that “The manifesto of the Congress, released yesterday [April 5,
2024], shows that it cannot fulfill the aspirations of the country. The
Congress manifesto has the imprint of the policies of the Muslim League before
Independence”.
‘Congress manifesto
reflects policies of Muslim League before Independence: PM Narendra Modi’, The
Indian Express, Delhi, April 7, 2024.
Modi as a leader and ideologue of Hindutva can be forgiven for
indulging in blatant lies (RSS is the biggest Gurukul or university in
the world which trains manufacturing-speaking lies) but not as PM of India. In
any accountable democracy he would have been charged for perjury and forced to
step down. But in the present scenario when the regulator of Indian elections,
Election Commission of India is more an appendage of the ruling party only
people of India can teach a lesson to such a lies.
Let us get familiar with the Hindutva archives to know, who were
the real pals of the Muslim League in the pre-Independent India.
SAVARKAR AS THE ORIGINATOR OF TWO-NATION THEORY
Savarkar, one of the originators of the politics of Hindutva was
the Hindu nationalist who developed the most elaborate Two-nation theory. The
fact should not be missed that Muslim League passed its Pakistan resolution in March
1940 only but Savarkar, the great philosopher and guide of RSS, propagated the
Two-nation theory long before it. While delivering the presidential address to
the 19th session Hindu Mahasabha at Ahmedabad in 1937, Savarkar declared
unequivocally,
"As it is, there are two antagonistic nations living
side by side in India. Several infantile politicians commit the serious mistake
in supposing that India is already welded into a harmonious nation, or that it
could be welded thus for the mere wish to do so. These our well-meaning but
unthinking friends take their dreams for realities. That is why they are
impatient of communal tangles and attribute them to communal organizations...Let
us bravely face unpleasant facts as they are. India cannot be assumed today to
be a Unitarian and homogenous nation, but on the contrary there are two nations
in the main: the Hindus and the Moslems, in India."
[Savarkar,
VD., Samagar Savarkar Wangmaya (Collected Works of Savarkar), vol. 6, Hindu
Mahasabha, Poona, 1963, p.296.]
RSS AS PRACTITIONER OF TWO-NATION THEORY
The RSS, following into the footsteps of Savarkar, rejected
out rightly the idea that Hindus and Muslims together constituted a nation. The
English organ of the RSS, Organiser, on the very eve of Independence
(August 14, 1947) editorially chalked out its concept of nation in the
following words:
"Let us no longer allow ourselves to be influenced by false
notions of nationhood. Much of the mental confusion and the present and future
troubles can be removed by the ready recognition of the simple fact that in
Hindusthan only the Hindus form the nation and the national structure must be
built on that safe and sound foundation…the nation itself must be built up of
Hindus, on Hindu traditions, culture, ideas and aspirations."
DR. AMBEDKAR ON HINDU MAHASABHA AND MUSLIM LEAGUE COLLUSION
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, a keen researcher of the communal
politics in pre-independence India, while underlying the affinity and
camaraderie between Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim League on the issue of the
Two-nation theory wrote:
"Strange it may appear, Mr. Savarkar and Mr. Jinnah
instead of being opposed to each other on the one nation versus two nations
issue are in complete agreement about it. Both agree, not only agree but insist
that there are two nations in India—one the Muslim nation and the other Hindu
nation."
B. R.
Ambedkar, Pakistan or the Partition of India, Govt. of Maharashtra,
Bombay, 1990 [Reprint of 1940 edition], p. 142.
HINDU MAHASABHA LED BY SAVARKAR RAN COALITION GOVERNMENTS
WITH MUSLIM LEAGUE
The children of Hindu nationalist, Savarkar ruling India
presently are oblivious of the shocking fact that Hindu Mahasabha led by
Savarkar entered into alliances with the Muslim League in order to break the
united freedom struggle, specially, the 1942 Quit India Movement against the
British rulers. While delivering Presidential address to the 24th session of
Hindu Mahasabha at Cawnpore (Kanpur) in 1942, he defended hobnobbing with the
Muslim League in the following words,
"In practical politics also the Mahasabha knows that we
must advance through reasonable compromises. Witness the fact that only
recently in Sind, the Sind-Hindu-Sabha on invitation had taken the
responsibility of joining hands with the League itself in running coalition
Government. The case of Bengal is well known. Wild Leaguers whom even the
Congress with all its submissiveness could not placate grew quite reasonably
compromising and socialable as soon as they came in contact with the Hindu
Mahasabha and the Coalition Government, under the premiership of Mr. Fazlul Huq
and the able lead of our esteemed Mahasabha leader Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerji,
functioned successfully for a year or so to the benefit of both the
communities. Moreover further events also proved demonstratively that the Hindu
Mahasabhaits endeavoured to capture the centres of political power only in the
public interests and not for the leaves and fishes of the office." Hindu
Mahasabha and Muslim League also ran coalition governments in Sind and North-Western
Frontier Province.
[Savarkar, VD., Samagar Savarkar Wangmaya
(Collected Works of Savarkar), vol. 6, Hindu Mahasabha, Poona, 1963, pp.479-480.]
It is tragedy of this
nation that a person occupying Prime Minister’s office resorts to brazen lies learnt
in RSS shakhas and boudhik shivirs (ideological training camps) which
even Hindutva archives does not corroborate. He is betraying the honour,
prestige and decorum of the office. The nation must request PM Modi that if he
wants to act as a cadre of RSS he should resign from the office and take a seat
in the hierarchy of RSS.
Shamsul Islam
April 4, 2024
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