RSS/BJP
BHARAT RATNA NOMINEE SAVARKAR JOINED HANDS WITH BRITISH MASTERS IN CRUSHING
QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT
The Quit India Movement (QIM) also known as ‘August
Kranti' (August Revolution) was a nation-wide Civil Disobedience Movement for
which a call was given on August 7, 1942 by the Bombay session of the All-India
Congress Committee. It was to begin on August 9 as per Gandhi's call to 'Do or
Die' in his Quit India speech delivered in Bombay at the Gowalia Tank Maidan on
August 8. Since then August 9 is celebrated as August Kranti Divas.
The British swiftly responded with mass detentions on
August 8th itself. Over 100,000 arrests were made which included the total top
leadership of Congress including Gandhi, mass fines were levied and
demonstrators were subjected to public flogging. Hundreds of civilians were
killed in violence, many shot by the police and army. Many national leaders
went underground and continued their struggle by broadcasting messages over
clandestine radio stations, distributing pamphlets and establishing parallel
governments. Innumerable patriotic Indians were shot dead for the crime that
they were holding Tricolour publically. Even before that a terrible massacre
took place in Mysore where the armed forces of Mysore Raja who was very close
to Hindu Mahasabha and RSS shot dead 22 Congress activists for saluting
Tricolour.
It is to be noted that after declaring Congress an
anti-national and unlawful organization, the British masters allowed only Hindu
Mahasabha and the Muslim League to function. The Hindutva camp ganged up to
serve the British masters. They not only opposed QIM but also provided
multi-faceted and multi-dimensional support to the British rulers in
suppressing this historic mass upsurge. In this connection, shocking documents
are available; these should be read to be believed.
SAVARKAR'S CALL FOR ''RESPONSIVE COOPERATION' WITH BRITISH
RULERS
While addressing the 24th session of the Hindu
Mahasabha at Cawnpore (now Kanpur) in 1942, Savarkar outlined the strategy of
the Hindu Mahasabha of co-operating with the British in the following words:
“The Hindu Mahasabha holds that the leading principle
of all practical politics is the policy of Responsive Co-operation. And in
virtue of it, it believes that all those Hindu Sangathanists who are working as
councillors, ministers, legislators and conducting any municipal or any public
bodies with a view to utilize those centres of government power to safeguard
and even promote the legitimate interests of the Hindus without, of course,
encroaching on the legitimate interests of others are rendering a highly
patriotic service to our nation…The policy of responsive co-operation which
covers the whole gamut of patriotic activities from unconditional co-operation
right up to active and even armed resistance, will also keep adapting itself to
the exigencies of the time, resources at our disposal and dictates of our
national interest.” [Italics as
in the original][i]
HINDUTVA ICON DR SYAMA PRASAD MOOKERJEE DEPUTY CM IN
THE BENGAL MUSLIM LEAGUE MINISTRY TOOK UP THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CRUSHING QIM IN
BENGAL
Following the Hindu Mahasabha directive to co-operate
with the British, the Hindutva icon, Dr. Mookerjee assured the British masters
through a letter dated July 26, 1942. Shockingly, it read:
“Let me now refer to the situation that may be created
in the province as a result of any widespread movement launched by the
Congress. Anybody, who during the war, plans to stir up mass feeling, resulting
internal disturbances or insecurity, must be resisted by any Government that
may function for the time being”[ii]
The second-in-command of the Hindu Mahasabha, Dr
Mookerjee, also the deputy chief minister in Bengal Muslim league ministry in a
letter to the British Bengal governor on behalf of Hindu Mahasabha and Muslim
League made it clear that both these parties looked at the British rulers as
saviours of Bengal against QIM launched by Congress. Assuring him, the letter
said:
“Indian have to trust the British, not for the sake
for Britain, not for any advantage that the British might gain, but for the
maintenance of the defence and freedom of the province itself."[iii]
With this anti-national record of the 'Veer' Savarkar
available in the Hindu Mahasabha archives itself; it would be shameless
denigration of hundreds of martyrs and victims of the British colonialists during
QIM if Savarkar is honoured with Bharat Ratna. No self-respecting nation should
allow it to happen.
Shamsul Islam
October, 19, 2019
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[i] Cited in V.D. Savarkar, Samagra Savarkar Wangmaya: Hindu
Rashtra Darshan, vol. 6, Maharashtra Prantik Hindu Sabha, Poona, 1963, p. 474.
[ii] Mookherjee, Shyama Prasad, Leaves from a Dairy,
Oxford University Press. p. 179.
[iii] [Cited in A G. Noorani, The RSS and the BJP: A Division of
Labour. LeftWord Books, p. 56–57.
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